On joke frequency estimation: seeing two people make the joke means it's far more than two
nabla_theta · x · 2026-11-13
A wry observation from nablatheta: "if you see two people have already made a joke, the best estimate of the number of times the joke has been made is not two" — a survivorship-bias-style take on how memes spread on your timeline.
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