The title. I never understood that expression… can someone help?
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It refers to the recursive application of a concept to itself.
For example
RAS syndrome = redundant acronym syndrome = where you write out the entire word represented by the last letter of an acronym in order to provide a noun with enough context to make communication clear.
RAS syndrome itself happens to exhibit the property of RAS syndrome, which is pretty meta.
Other examples might be refusing to tolerate intolerance, recognizing the mental activity of recognition, asking who shall watch the watchers, or computing the probability that a probabilistic calculation is correct.
The term “meta” may soon change meaning to refer to an ignominious downfall, such as what happens if a social media company tries to change itself into a VR company and does so poorly.
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