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  2. Real life - Wikipedia

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    The initialism "RL" stands for "real life" and "IRL" for "in real life." For example, one can speak of "meeting IRL" an online acquaintance. It may also be used to express an inability to use the Internet for a time due to "RL problems". Some internet users use the idioms "face time" and "meatspace" in contrast with the term "cyberspace".

  3. Information hazard - Wikipedia

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    An information hazard, or infohazard, [1] is "a risk that arises from the dissemination of (true) information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm". It was formalized by philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2011.

  4. IRL - Wikipedia

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    IRL, a Swedish drama film about a high school student tormented by peers; IRL (2019 film), an American drama film about "the ups and downs of online dating and modern dating" IRL, a 2023 album by Mahalia; In Real Life (band), boy band

  5. Shitposting - Wikipedia

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    Shitposting is a modern form of online provocation. The term itself appeared around the mid-2000s on image boards such as 4chan.Writing for Polygon, Sam Greszes compared shitposting to Dadaism's "confusing, context-free pieces that, specifically because they were so absurd, were seen as revolutionary works both artistically and politically".

  6. Thesaurus (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus is composed by at least three elements: 1-a list of words (or terms), 2-the relationship amongst the words (or terms), indicated by their hierarchical relative position (e.g. parent/broader term; child/narrower term, synonym, etc.), 3-a set of rules on how to use the thesaurus.

  7. Hive mind - Wikipedia

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    Collective consciousness and collective intelligence, two concepts in sociology and philosophy . Group mind (science fiction), a type of collective consciousness Groupthink, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in a group results in irrational or dysfunctional decision-making

  8. Institute for Research on Learning - Wikipedia

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    The Institute for Research on Learning (IRL) in Palo Alto, California was co-founded by John Seely Brown, then chief research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center, and James Greeno, Professor of Education at Stanford University, with the support of David Kearns, CEO of Xerox Corporation in 1986 through a grant from the Xerox Foundation.

  9. Flashback (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Due to the elusive nature of involuntary recurrent memories, very little is known about the subjective experience of flashbacks. However, theorists agree that this phenomenon is in part due to the manner in which memories of specific events are initially encoded (or entered) into memory, the way in which the memory is organized, and also the way in which the individual later recalls the event. [5]