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Sometimes after writing and collecting these thoughts, I’ll come across the same thought but thought up by someone else. Or there will be an element that augments what I’ve already written, so I’ll include it as a quotation.
To some extent the thought remains my own, in that I feel that I’ll apply some mental pressure to guide it into alignment with what I’ve written. It suits it complementary. Often it will be expressed more accurately, and probably more beautifully. I’ve wrapped the concepts into my own silly vocab as well, anti-dates. Bites. Islands.
But if I am proud of it, I’ll take some pride in converging on some mental path that allowed me to also think of it.
I wonder, outside of myself, that is exploring on my own, what the point of it is? Why should I even think?
There is one, perhaps good thing though. I’ll still encounter thoughts I have not thought of, which shows growth and process into the uncharted. And also, by virtue of encountering a convergent thought after (so without direct influence or quotation) it also reflects that whatever search I am doing, places me in places where I get some value and validation from.
It is like talking about kites, and someone provides you with a kite.
Or assortative relationships, where you attract what you love, and that is wonderfully reciprocated in that person finding you, and you them.
My Statistically Improbable Phrase
There’s a concept called statistically improbable phrases which denote a set of words that are inordinately improbable compared to a larger corpus. It can serve as a fingerprint, or a reference. (If a text has certain words, and other texts also do - it could point towards the child texts to be derived or copied from the origin of the improbable phrase.)
This is also present as a browser experiment I’ve seen. The further you customize your browser or leak information deviating from the mode, the more unique your fingerprint is, and thus the easier it is to be tracked. As a simple example, having a workspace specific addon, might point to you working at that place. Following a specific region on a profile, might mean live there.
Back to SIPs, the word “the” is extremely common - but authors will often have their own SIP.
I wonder what, out of all of those words I’ve spoken, is my SIP? It would seem pretty easy to derive. If you are truly using unique strong passwords, these are SIPs.
Googleable/Access
Google search results have declined in usefulness to me, outside superficial - first page results. Early web, it seemed Google was a kind of Oracle (even early search engine Ask Jeeves had that personified Butler aesthetic.)
What I find is often important thoughts I cannot get any results for. They are locked away. Things I would find interesting, are abstruse. They are hidden in physical texts. They are obscure. People interest me and their specific interests and thoughts.
These strange sites devoid of graphic effort and just listing specific ideas. These are interesting.
Googlewhack
Similar to Hapax Legomenon is the Googlewhack, which attempts to find search queries with single results. There’s some least interesting number paradox mixed with the Streisand Effect in that a Googlewhack, once disclosed, will no longer be a Googlewhack as documentation will link to it.
Perhaps the unshared Googlewhack is the un-memed object.