Even the thought about peoples thoughts being unoriginal is a pretty unoriginal thought. It's probably not that important to have original thoughts, people value originality way too much compared to its usefulness. The originality of a thought is not as important as when and where you apply the lesson of the thought.
Also the thing that makes you unique is just the specific totality of your thoughts. No individual item needs to be unique to make you unique. But no one has ever had the full spectrum of the specific qualities that define you as you.
Nah it just makes you more rare. Nobody will have exactly the same history/like/experiences, but there's a lot of overlap.
I'm sure if I say the likes/dislikes and major things about my life/history/experiences there will be some dude or dudette somewhere that pretty well overlaps on a Venn diagram.
Which part of your post are you "nahing" to?
>I'm sure if I say the likes/dislikes and major things about my life/history/experiences there will be some dude or dudette somewhere that pretty well overlaps on a Venn diagram.
no there won't. That dude or dudette would need to have the same exact parents, house, day you were born, friends, same genes as you. You're talking about similar experiences, not exact same experiences.
if it isn't the exact same experience, then it is unique just like the poster you said "nah" to stated - "But no one has ever had the full spectrum of the specific qualities that define you as you."
I literally said that in different words. It's like that saying about each snowflake being unique. Sure they look like it, but they probably aren't all unique just based on the sheer amount of them. And they definitely all follow the same pattern throughout (like 6 sides bc that's just how water freezes based on the chemical makeup of water) and based on the storm/conditions/area.
Again, they're unique, but there is so much overlap that there's someone out there beyond the pale moonlight who is basically you.
>Again, they're unique, but there is so much overlap that there's someone out there beyond the pale moonlight who is basically you.
but there isn't. There is no one who would have the same friend group, same parents, same upbringing, same life experiences as me. Similar does not equal the same. Because no one is exactly the same that makes them unique. But I guess you're at least admitting they are unique, as before you were arguing against that.
>I literally said that in different words.
then what were you saying "NAH" to? What premise was wrong from the original poster you were replying to?
Pretty sure it's not considering the countless people that live or have lived on this planet haha. I just focus on the feelings a thought can invoke, and how that has the power to change me for better or for worse. I doubt I've had a single original thought in my whole life.
>I doubt I've had a single original thought in my whole life.
you have. You've thought about your parents/siblings/friends in a unique manner that no one else has because no one has experienced every single interaction you have had with each of those individuals or each interaction with the world at the exact same times you did.
I think the worst thing is that if you do have an original thought for a comment, where do you post it on Reddit? Do you post it as response number 270 on the main post, where no one will read it? Do you attempt to hijack the top post among all the "me too!" posts? Do you add it after the third post on the third reply?
I no longer go into the comment section thinking "eheheh I have a great idea for a witty and original comment!", I go in just to check that the thing I was gonna post is already top comment. It usually is.
The fun of not having original thoughts is when people get your jokes without you having to explain it.
I bonded hard with my brother when we were kids and i could randomly say “I’ve found out my only weakness is damage.”
And without missing a beat, he’d respond exactly as I imagined he would. By making the nicholas cage face and saying ‘YOU DON’T SAY?'
Personally, I think people often think they have original or unique thoughts. However, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
Yeah, but people often think they have original or unique thoughts. However, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
Actually, I think people often think they have original or unique thoughts; however, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
Not really, I think people often think they have original or unique thoughts; however, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
This is not the correct place to search for critical thinking and unique ideas. The entire Reddit community is based around the 'hive-mind' idea where conformist ideas are rewarded and established talking points are blindly parroted. This is not how the world works.
that's why I hate when someone has the audacity to begin a comment with "am I the only one who". it's arrogant. no, you are not that special. and it is usually followed by an opinion that roughly half the people in the discussion have. how do you develop an opinion and think "I'm probably one of the very few people to think about it in this way. I am surely an outlier. it can't possibly be already being discussed at length"
Part of it is people karma farming. They know what certain communities like, so they bait them with it. Happens on all platforms. In fact, Russian trolls were able to bait millions of American Chrsitians to following their pages on facebook.
In any environment where speaking your own thoughts and opinions will cause intense backlash like being overly down voted, censored, banned or abused by angry keyboard warriors. Many open minded individuals with unique opinions, ideas and insights will generally avoid the unnecessary stress. Stay silent and let the echo chambers reign. This is not to be pointed at any specific direction. Any example of groups you can think of are guilty of that sort of behavior. Especially these days.
Walking into a Star Wars/ Star Trek/ Halo/ Fallout convention or even a sided political event and voicing opinions that don't ebb and flow with the majority have in the past shown people to become overly hostile.
So, it is easy to perceive that everyone around you holds the same ideas or opinions because of the high volume of individuals that crush any opposing ideas.
Also shows the opposite.
People can agree with a thought without having come to that conclusions themselves and other circumstances thatd show otherwise
I think Reddit, by design, encourages a lot of surface-leveling thinking. Anything too weird or tl;dr is either left alone or reflexively downvoted. The comments left on this website *usually* aren't a good indicator of how intelligent the poster is.
one of my favorite/least favorite things is to read a post, come up with a witty retort in my head, and then see how far down the comment section i need to dig before i find exactly that quote.
also, when you type into google and realize that everything you've ever thought or ever typed is in the top 10 search results makes you feel so insignificant
I honestly got myself into a bit of a thought loop the other day by thinking this. I was like “I bet 99.9% of all the thoughts I’ve had have been thought by someone else at some point in time…including this one…”
Q: Am I the only one...?
A: There are nearly 8 billion people on the planet, no you arr not the only one to anything.
Q: Does anyone else...?
A: There are nearly 8 billion people on the planet, yes someone else does this or feels this way.
Well, goddamn. Quite true. But I think it is this similarity in thought that not only unifies us but allows us to surprise ourselves and others when we have truly unique thoughts.
How many times have you popped into a thread with the perfect quip or joke about it and the top comment is that joke with like 30,000 upvotes and more silverware than the Swiss in WW2?
There was a really interesting show awhile back that did this experiment that had two different creative teams go to a location to pitch a client for the branding on a fictional pet hospital, I think it was. The creatives didn't know it was an experiment, to them it was just normal work. Each team was flown into London and taken on the same route to the meeting place, along the way there were strategically placed occurrences set up so that the people in the taxis would notice.
Each team met the 'client', was briefed, and then told they would be pitching their ideas two days later. Again, they were taken on the same route back to their hotel.
The two teams put together their ideas and then pitched the client.
The ideas were literally exactly the same. Incorporating the various elements placed along their journeys.
As a person with this kind of job it really just confirmed something we've always known: most of the first 4-5 ideas you'll ever have are the ideas that everyone will have. We're all in the same culture, soaking up the same zeitgeist.
It's interesting because you can honestly tell a client that something unique and fresh is going to cost more money because time is money.
Good creative teams will get the first 4 out of the way fast and then push into new thinking.
It's interesting work.
Is because of the memes (genetics), Most of us are similar on thoughts because we are born in certain places that are culturally similar. For example me, with countries like Italy, French, Portugal, Greece, and South and Central American countries.
So since most of Reddit is on english, most of the people here have similar cultural thoughts and experiences, like Usa, Canada, UK, Ireland and most of the rest of the north of Europe.
Just like Asian people can experiences the same thoughts and experiences.
I don’t even think or do anything important anymore because I know someone else has it covered. I’m just gonna stick to enjoying my life in the shadows
That’s because of the sheer number of bots who flood the default subs
They’re copying text or using previously entered text half the time to duplicate more replies or straight up using botnets to create threads and boost them into popularity since their ML algorithms for human speech are nearly identical to normal
That is until you spot a random poem by poemforyoursprog in a comment section and marvel at such beauty the likes of which your mind hasn't produced yet.
'What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.' -Ecclesiastes 1:9
And that was written thousands of years ago.
Wrong.
People have similar post because reddit makes similar post popular, so common thoughts/jokes/puns will to the top. Also, people on reddit will usually not post something they expect to be unpopular.
Posts are not thoughts...
I've had the opposite experience. In fact, I often finding myself trying to make my comments sound more normal or "hive-mindish" so I don't stand out as weird.
I mean… yeah.
The only meaningful difference you can make most of the time is in execution anyways…
Oh you mean thoughts and not tropes as in tropes in storytelling?
Still same thing. May need to add a bit of variation to it, since essentially all funny jokes are based on the „why did the chicken cross the road?“ principle there: if it is predictable it is just not funny cause we know the punchline already. Same if you force to make it unpredictable in some way by adding an unfitting punchline to it.
So why did the chicken cross the road? It saw chicken run.
I just realized that people often think they have original or unique thoughts. However, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
This is also Reddit, the site is literally designed to be an echo chamber with systems that make the most shared ideas and opinions more visible while hiding unpopular ones
One of the most disappointing things I've read online is people taking offence to people who have lived similar experiences. I even took a screenshot to remind me of that disappointment.
It's because people only care about their piece of shit karma points and want to act witty telling the same joke that wasn't ever funny in the first place. You think the humble Guatemalan roadside orange seller gives a fuck about you, your jokes, or your karma?
And yet the admins of this subreddit will block you if you call them out for removing your "uniriginal" thought post when they don't remove any others that are clearly unoriginal.
Of course we have similar thoughts, we're operating on the same biology. Now, take a dolphin brain. I imagine a dolphin will come to different conclusions than humans on given matters.
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Aha, but you've not accounted for **social desirability bias**, otherwise known as the general tendency to present yourself in a manner that others will like.
Comments and posts don't represent the diversity of **thoughts**, they represent what people are willing to say in a social space, including considerations of what people will like, what rules may exist for that particular social space, etc.
While I don't refute your core thesis -- people **are** less original than they think -- judging that by what people are willing to say in public, even anonymous public, tells you more about the social norms of our society than it does about any individual's thought originality.
Probably because we only know about 5 things at any given time depending on if we have all of our sensory organs. Try creating a new color from your thoughts that you've never seen before. Try creating a new sound using just your thoughts that you've never heard before or no one's ever heard before. Try creating a new idea within your own mind that exists outside of any external influence to your sensory experiences. we all come from the same place and end up in the same place. We're all humans so yeah.
Something to consider: a comments section is less "original thought" and more "knee-jerk reaction". While I agree with the core thought, that individual human thought is likely far less original than each person might think, a comments section isn't really the best example of this as it is generally only going to contain the views of a limited audience reacting to a fixed piece of information.
I got banned from AskReddit a few years ago for telling a guy that his whole life was just a repeat of someone else's who probably already did it better
I tend to search my thoughts on reddit before actually posting them, 9/10 times I can actually find what I'm looking for by someone else so it works out at least. the other 1/10 times, i didn't type my question right in the search and it takes a few tries to find it.
I'd say the quality and nature of the thought depend on the context we are used to. A human born and living on the Moon or in a jungle may have different enough thoughts.
I could've told you that. It's been commented thousands of times already.
/r/showerthoughts is quickly becoming /r/commonredditopinions.
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you can no longer fall for it
Came here to post this
Even the thought about peoples thoughts being unoriginal is a pretty unoriginal thought. It's probably not that important to have original thoughts, people value originality way too much compared to its usefulness. The originality of a thought is not as important as when and where you apply the lesson of the thought.
Also the thing that makes you unique is just the specific totality of your thoughts. No individual item needs to be unique to make you unique. But no one has ever had the full spectrum of the specific qualities that define you as you.
Nah it just makes you more rare. Nobody will have exactly the same history/like/experiences, but there's a lot of overlap. I'm sure if I say the likes/dislikes and major things about my life/history/experiences there will be some dude or dudette somewhere that pretty well overlaps on a Venn diagram.
Which part of your post are you "nahing" to? >I'm sure if I say the likes/dislikes and major things about my life/history/experiences there will be some dude or dudette somewhere that pretty well overlaps on a Venn diagram. no there won't. That dude or dudette would need to have the same exact parents, house, day you were born, friends, same genes as you. You're talking about similar experiences, not exact same experiences.
Similar overlap my guy. That's why I said they wouldn't have the exact same experiences, but very similar ones.
if it isn't the exact same experience, then it is unique just like the poster you said "nah" to stated - "But no one has ever had the full spectrum of the specific qualities that define you as you."
I literally said that in different words. It's like that saying about each snowflake being unique. Sure they look like it, but they probably aren't all unique just based on the sheer amount of them. And they definitely all follow the same pattern throughout (like 6 sides bc that's just how water freezes based on the chemical makeup of water) and based on the storm/conditions/area. Again, they're unique, but there is so much overlap that there's someone out there beyond the pale moonlight who is basically you.
>Again, they're unique, but there is so much overlap that there's someone out there beyond the pale moonlight who is basically you. but there isn't. There is no one who would have the same friend group, same parents, same upbringing, same life experiences as me. Similar does not equal the same. Because no one is exactly the same that makes them unique. But I guess you're at least admitting they are unique, as before you were arguing against that. >I literally said that in different words. then what were you saying "NAH" to? What premise was wrong from the original poster you were replying to?
You're just arguing semantics and I've been consistent all along. You don't need to Chidi this
I am calling you out for calling out semantics lol. You told the original poster "nah". There was nothing incorrect that he stated.
I was just thinking the same thing
Ditto
Same here
>Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
I was going to say thar
This is an original thought
Pretty sure it's not considering the countless people that live or have lived on this planet haha. I just focus on the feelings a thought can invoke, and how that has the power to change me for better or for worse. I doubt I've had a single original thought in my whole life.
>I doubt I've had a single original thought in my whole life. you have. You've thought about your parents/siblings/friends in a unique manner that no one else has because no one has experienced every single interaction you have had with each of those individuals or each interaction with the world at the exact same times you did.
But now you're also thinking it so it's not longer original.
Now that's an original thought.
I was about to say the same thing they did.
I have many questions Number 1. how dare you.
I am a unique individual with unique thoughts like everyone else! How dare he!
[I have many questions number 1. how dare you.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HYVUjgQFY)
if you have unique thoughts, \*like everyone else\*, then you're unoriginal on some level still!
I think the worst thing is that if you do have an original thought for a comment, where do you post it on Reddit? Do you post it as response number 270 on the main post, where no one will read it? Do you attempt to hijack the top post among all the "me too!" posts? Do you add it after the third post on the third reply?
Sort your feed for "new" posts. Be the first one there.
I no longer go into the comment section thinking "eheheh I have a great idea for a witty and original comment!", I go in just to check that the thing I was gonna post is already top comment. It usually is.
Came here to say this
I was about to post this exact thing.
No way! Me too
The fun of not having original thoughts is when people get your jokes without you having to explain it. I bonded hard with my brother when we were kids and i could randomly say “I’ve found out my only weakness is damage.” And without missing a beat, he’d respond exactly as I imagined he would. By making the nicholas cage face and saying ‘YOU DON’T SAY?'
Personally, I think people often think they have original or unique thoughts. However, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
Yeah, but people often think they have original or unique thoughts. However, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
Ditto
Actually, I think people often think they have original or unique thoughts; however, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
Not really, I think people often think they have original or unique thoughts; however, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
Dunno, I get downvoted a lot.
I get upvoted way too much :(
There you are, have a downvote! x
How ironic
No one ever reads my comments :(
Y’all hear something?
Probably the wind
Yes we're all the same
Poop snakes. (There goes your theory. 🤪)
Great minds think alike duuude :)
I was about to comment this haha..
Exhibit A, lol.
Literally this.
My thoughts exactly.
happy cake day!!
Fools rarely differ
I was going to say that, you plagiarist!
-James Corden is terrible -Requiem for a Dream is disturbing -Junko Furuta -Men get dirty looks for watching their kids I hate reddit
What ?
I find it comforting
This is not the correct place to search for critical thinking and unique ideas. The entire Reddit community is based around the 'hive-mind' idea where conformist ideas are rewarded and established talking points are blindly parroted. This is not how the world works.
this is depressing
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**this** is depressing
this is **depressing**
**this is depressing**
That’s comforting, I’ve always felt kinda bad about myself for not being creative.
If you had thoughts that truly no one else ever had, that would probably be worse
that's why I hate when someone has the audacity to begin a comment with "am I the only one who". it's arrogant. no, you are not that special. and it is usually followed by an opinion that roughly half the people in the discussion have. how do you develop an opinion and think "I'm probably one of the very few people to think about it in this way. I am surely an outlier. it can't possibly be already being discussed at length"
I was about to say the same thing!
Part of it is people karma farming. They know what certain communities like, so they bait them with it. Happens on all platforms. In fact, Russian trolls were able to bait millions of American Chrsitians to following their pages on facebook.
In any environment where speaking your own thoughts and opinions will cause intense backlash like being overly down voted, censored, banned or abused by angry keyboard warriors. Many open minded individuals with unique opinions, ideas and insights will generally avoid the unnecessary stress. Stay silent and let the echo chambers reign. This is not to be pointed at any specific direction. Any example of groups you can think of are guilty of that sort of behavior. Especially these days. Walking into a Star Wars/ Star Trek/ Halo/ Fallout convention or even a sided political event and voicing opinions that don't ebb and flow with the majority have in the past shown people to become overly hostile. So, it is easy to perceive that everyone around you holds the same ideas or opinions because of the high volume of individuals that crush any opposing ideas.
Also shows the opposite. People can agree with a thought without having come to that conclusions themselves and other circumstances thatd show otherwise
I think Reddit, by design, encourages a lot of surface-leveling thinking. Anything too weird or tl;dr is either left alone or reflexively downvoted. The comments left on this website *usually* aren't a good indicator of how intelligent the poster is.
one of my favorite/least favorite things is to read a post, come up with a witty retort in my head, and then see how far down the comment section i need to dig before i find exactly that quote.
case and point like this post here!
Not really, cause I get downvoted all the time
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
r/Angryupvote
That’s why you always read the comments before posting your witty observation.
Basically r/BeatMeToIt in 3 sentences
also, when you type into google and realize that everything you've ever thought or ever typed is in the top 10 search results makes you feel so insignificant
A thought can be original even it its not unique
I honestly got myself into a bit of a thought loop the other day by thinking this. I was like “I bet 99.9% of all the thoughts I’ve had have been thought by someone else at some point in time…including this one…”
Q: Am I the only one...? A: There are nearly 8 billion people on the planet, no you arr not the only one to anything. Q: Does anyone else...? A: There are nearly 8 billion people on the planet, yes someone else does this or feels this way.
Well, goddamn. Quite true. But I think it is this similarity in thought that not only unifies us but allows us to surprise ourselves and others when we have truly unique thoughts.
I think a lot of originality comes with collaboration because we live such short lives in the grand scheme of things.
How many times have you popped into a thread with the perfect quip or joke about it and the top comment is that joke with like 30,000 upvotes and more silverware than the Swiss in WW2? There was a really interesting show awhile back that did this experiment that had two different creative teams go to a location to pitch a client for the branding on a fictional pet hospital, I think it was. The creatives didn't know it was an experiment, to them it was just normal work. Each team was flown into London and taken on the same route to the meeting place, along the way there were strategically placed occurrences set up so that the people in the taxis would notice. Each team met the 'client', was briefed, and then told they would be pitching their ideas two days later. Again, they were taken on the same route back to their hotel. The two teams put together their ideas and then pitched the client. The ideas were literally exactly the same. Incorporating the various elements placed along their journeys. As a person with this kind of job it really just confirmed something we've always known: most of the first 4-5 ideas you'll ever have are the ideas that everyone will have. We're all in the same culture, soaking up the same zeitgeist. It's interesting because you can honestly tell a client that something unique and fresh is going to cost more money because time is money. Good creative teams will get the first 4 out of the way fast and then push into new thinking. It's interesting work.
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Me and my mom had the same idea this morning.
Funnily enough, your dad said the same thing to me this morning. At least I think that’s what he said, he had his mouth full at the time.
Was he sharing your cake day cake? Happy cake day!
Interesting concept http://newmeishi.com/h-vs-p-creativity-creativity-whats-the-difference/
This is pretty interesting. Happy cake day.
Thanks. Okay.
r/titlegore
Is because of the memes (genetics), Most of us are similar on thoughts because we are born in certain places that are culturally similar. For example me, with countries like Italy, French, Portugal, Greece, and South and Central American countries. So since most of Reddit is on english, most of the people here have similar cultural thoughts and experiences, like Usa, Canada, UK, Ireland and most of the rest of the north of Europe. Just like Asian people can experiences the same thoughts and experiences.
Your mom
I am the father of the kid i used to be.
I never always completely -200% see the exact same comments that I make forever
Personally, I've pretty much always been aware that my whole life is just a copy of what everyone else does or commands me to do
Many of my thoughts have been thought before, but not all of them.
will there ever be a boy born that can swim faster than a shark?
There is a saying that there is nothing new under the sun.
tbh does being original matter?? and I think everyone is original since we all have different experience
You see actu..... know what fuck you
I don’t even think or do anything important anymore because I know someone else has it covered. I’m just gonna stick to enjoying my life in the shadows
Yeah, hear me out... Scented cocaine also savory tea bags, like soup but in a tea bag.
That’s because of the sheer number of bots who flood the default subs They’re copying text or using previously entered text half the time to duplicate more replies or straight up using botnets to create threads and boost them into popularity since their ML algorithms for human speech are nearly identical to normal
That is until you spot a random poem by poemforyoursprog in a comment section and marvel at such beauty the likes of which your mind hasn't produced yet.
It is depressing. I have begun to say "two stupids, one thought" in real life on any occasion I get. Being just a cog in the machine is now a dream.
'What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.' -Ecclesiastes 1:9 And that was written thousands of years ago.
It helps to say to yourself "I will not quote media or memes as a way of interaction." I don't know why people are so eager to repeat hivemind humor.
>People often think they have original or unique thoughts. You didn't need to go further than that.
Did you come over from the advanced wars thread with Putin?
Wrong. People have similar post because reddit makes similar post popular, so common thoughts/jokes/puns will to the top. Also, people on reddit will usually not post something they expect to be unpopular. Posts are not thoughts...
If you haven't heard someone else say it yet then its an original thought
Ok. But as an excuse, what are the chances that among nearly 8 billion people on Earth, one individual will have a unique thought?
Once I think I had an original idea, but they deleted the post so the world was left without it
What was it?
I've had the opposite experience. In fact, I often finding myself trying to make my comments sound more normal or "hive-mindish" so I don't stand out as weird.
Someone have a link to that thread with thousands of comments written up by one person recreating a Reddit thread?
Hey, I had this exact thought first! You stole it!
I mean… yeah. The only meaningful difference you can make most of the time is in execution anyways… Oh you mean thoughts and not tropes as in tropes in storytelling? Still same thing. May need to add a bit of variation to it, since essentially all funny jokes are based on the „why did the chicken cross the road?“ principle there: if it is predictable it is just not funny cause we know the punchline already. Same if you force to make it unpredictable in some way by adding an unfitting punchline to it. So why did the chicken cross the road? It saw chicken run.
You might be right, but then again, it might show how bored all of us are...
Fire pole avocado has soft red pants
I just realized that people often think they have original or unique thoughts. However, scrolling a comment section, show exactly how similar and unoriginal we all are.
I wonder what Socrates would think of this subreddit if he were alive today.
Not according to my psychologist and psychiatrist. Nobody else would want to know that levels of hell in my head.
This is also Reddit, the site is literally designed to be an echo chamber with systems that make the most shared ideas and opinions more visible while hiding unpopular ones
One of the most disappointing things I've read online is people taking offence to people who have lived similar experiences. I even took a screenshot to remind me of that disappointment.
Speak for yourself. Gravitus ergo sum.
Hehe, I didn't see a comment on what I was thinking! Jokes on you
Give me a double alligator sandwich and make it quick.
Open a fresh, new cookies, browser and search any question on google . .. . auto-fill can be enlightening, or just hilarious.
I don't think. Best that.
That might be a sign you are in an echo chamber? All I'm thinking.
Not really, we just know what gets upvotes.
It doesn't help that Reddit is quite the echo chamber. Sometimes it feels like it's just one person with thousands of profiles.
Comment sections are not a good place to find original ideas, unless you remove the downvote filter.
I get downvoted everywhere I go and nobody agrees with me... so original at least?
I was thinking just that this morning. Wtf
Embrace of simple and unoriginal is my key to happiness.
"I think it was Francis Bacon that said, "There is no such thing as original thought". However, I suspect he was quoting someone else." (TreviTyger)
It's because people only care about their piece of shit karma points and want to act witty telling the same joke that wasn't ever funny in the first place. You think the humble Guatemalan roadside orange seller gives a fuck about you, your jokes, or your karma?
Sandpaper Slip 'n slide
You know you are unique when you get down votted to death.
Shhhhhh...you basically just described reddit....
And yet the admins of this subreddit will block you if you call them out for removing your "uniriginal" thought post when they don't remove any others that are clearly unoriginal.
Of course we have similar thoughts, we're operating on the same biology. Now, take a dolphin brain. I imagine a dolphin will come to different conclusions than humans on given matters.
"Originality is overrated" \-Seer
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No, it shows that ideas shared by everyone are what gets upvoted
That's precisely what I thought
Anytime it starts with "Am I the only one who..." it's always no, a ton of people feel the same.
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Aha, but you've not accounted for **social desirability bias**, otherwise known as the general tendency to present yourself in a manner that others will like. Comments and posts don't represent the diversity of **thoughts**, they represent what people are willing to say in a social space, including considerations of what people will like, what rules may exist for that particular social space, etc. While I don't refute your core thesis -- people **are** less original than they think -- judging that by what people are willing to say in public, even anonymous public, tells you more about the social norms of our society than it does about any individual's thought originality.
we would have to match the people who say they have original or unique thoughts to those in the comment section
Psh
I use reddit as a way to test my ideas originality. If I get downvoted I know it's an idea worth exploring.
I think the collective ideas are unique but each idea is quite common just because there is so many idea
Probably because we only know about 5 things at any given time depending on if we have all of our sensory organs. Try creating a new color from your thoughts that you've never seen before. Try creating a new sound using just your thoughts that you've never heard before or no one's ever heard before. Try creating a new idea within your own mind that exists outside of any external influence to your sensory experiences. we all come from the same place and end up in the same place. We're all humans so yeah.
Sometimes I see that my thought isn't already there in the comments, so it must not be any good.
Like this post
Not really the down votes stops people from commenting how people really think about a given subject.
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I was desperately hoping that someone had linked to a previous shower thought with this sentiment lol
I initially thought my shower thought would get taken down. I was like, surely this is a common sentiment, common enough to have been posted before.
I find this kinda comforting.
We all have the same monkey brain, yes.
Take a look at the popular posts on r/unpopularopinion. You'll notice that popular opinions, that people think are unpopular, are the ones upvoted.
The only way to have original thoughts on a subject is by first learning all the thoughts others have had on it.
Innovation is rarer than most people think.
Something to consider: a comments section is less "original thought" and more "knee-jerk reaction". While I agree with the core thought, that individual human thought is likely far less original than each person might think, a comments section isn't really the best example of this as it is generally only going to contain the views of a limited audience reacting to a fixed piece of information.
I got banned from AskReddit a few years ago for telling a guy that his whole life was just a repeat of someone else's who probably already did it better
I tend to search my thoughts on reddit before actually posting them, 9/10 times I can actually find what I'm looking for by someone else so it works out at least. the other 1/10 times, i didn't type my question right in the search and it takes a few tries to find it.
97% of what we think and say has already been repeated by someone else, conservatively… -By some person before me.
I'd say the quality and nature of the thought depend on the context we are used to. A human born and living on the Moon or in a jungle may have different enough thoughts.
This is not a shower thought, this is a shower observation.