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Funny how often this applies to ppl who use the term earnestly, then. If I open a generic gaming streamer/youtuber/twitterer, I can model all their political ideas w/very high accuracy if they call other people NPCs.
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NPC = a person whose responses are so predictable due to ideological capture that it is possible to replace them in an online conversation with a bot programmed with the same ideology and nobody would notice.
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Isn't this pretty much how strong ideological partisanship has already been seen to work? Is this term really an earnest attempt to frame a concept? If so, it's a Less Wrong-esque rebranding & neophiliac reinvention of a commonplace idea.
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Oh, really, people tend to form predictable & machine-learnable belief patterns when they get fanatical about an ideology? Who knew?