A mechanism or tactic · 1600 · Theatre
The audience
A room of people responding to a performance, learning the timing of the person on the stage.
Theatre invented the responsestream, and the performer learns to read it. Two thousand years before a chat log, the same feedback loop with worse latency and a room.
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