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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 55 points 6 months ago

Like that monkey experiment where they put food on top of a ladder but every time someone tries to get the food everybody gets sprayed with cold water. When they stop trying to get food they take one monkey out and put a new one in who gets beaten up by the others when it tries to get the food. So they substitute in new monkeys until none of the originals are left but they still beat up anyone trying to get the food although they don't know why.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 6 months ago

This vaguely describes my tenure as a mod of a moderately large gaming server

[-] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 months ago

Didn't a lot of traditions start this way? First they solved some problem, then they forgot the problem existed and continued to apply the solution

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah, probably.

Anyways, let's eat some non-pig meat and chop off some foreskins!

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

oh hey thats my my country! haiiii :3

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

any sources?

[-] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

The experiment itself seems to have never actually happened.

https://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-banana-story-is-rubbish/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/games-primates-play/201203/what-monkeys-can-teach-us-about-human-behavior-facts-fiction

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

thank you

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure you just described like every sports team with a fanbase. The Football Team of Theseus.

49ers fans love to brag that the 49ers are among the teams with the most Super Bowl wins, but they haven’t gotten one in like 3 generations of players so you tell me, 49ers of Theseus. Do you have any Super Bowl wins?