Vibe, Mood, Energy

This is excellent as an essay on a specific piece of internet culture history. I am intimately familiar with all the terms covered, yet this article gives them additional historical context as well as intriguing insights by linking everything together. Highly recommend anyone coming straight to the comments gives it a read, there's a lot of interesting ideas to consider.

Or in other words: philosopher energy, late night cozy lecture hall vibes

It's an interesting symmetry that's like cyclical Muzak (now Mood Media, iHeartRadio for business, etc..) On one hand you have human- or machine-generated playlists of background music designed to put you in a mood (usually for monetization, but sometimes to study, work, exercise, fall asleep, etc.) while on the other hand you have reverse-engineered behavioral modeling based on what you're listening to (presumably also for monetization.)

Awesome piece. I’ve got two scientific articles on vibes that are due to be published in the next two months. I’ve been obsessed with the operationalization and measurement of the vibe.

It turns out that Isaac Newton proposed that the brain is based on (electrical) vibrations. This idea was soundly rejected by the medical establishment because nerves were too “flaccid” to sustain vibrations.

> it's all the SAME trip

How choking and unfree this concept is. Could not we have choices and different destinations conditioned on them?