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		suoduandao2 on Aug 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No More “Insight Porn” I suspect we use 'porn' as a shorthand for 'hypernormal stimuli' and I suspect we have so much of it because humans have fewer evolved defenses against manipulation by hypernormal stimuli on the internet.

nottorp on Aug 9, 2022 [–]

Well, car magazines were there before the internet. I still buy one. I've always called them "car porn".

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