The Uniformity Of Crowds
Dick and Paul dig into why everything — restaurants, faces, portfolios, hiking trails, even AI chatbots — is starting to look exactly the same. From a Soho frozen yogurt line to Instagram Face to correlated markets flash-crashing in unison, they trace how social proof, algorithms, and the compulsion to "have done the thing" are quietly erasing variety everywhere you look. Plus: why ChatGPT always picks the number 7, why there are 900 cans of bear spray on a trail with zero bears, and what a fake barn in a Don DeLillo novel has to do with all of it.
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