Glossary: "egregore" (because I've had to explain this to non-twitter friends a few times too many and there seem to be no linkable explanations on the net):https://www.synkretie.net/writings/egregores.html …
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Replying to @geofurb
mobs are one type of egregore, yes (it's right in the link in fact)
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Replying to @allgebrah
I read; it just seems like the term is broad enough to cover every kind.
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Replying to @geofurb
mobs are generally stupid, violent and short-lived, I mean you can generalize the term a little (like in mob programming) but it's a bad fit for something with as much executive function as, say, a state
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Replying to @allgebrah
Do those fit the category, with such centralized leadership? What's the line between an egregore and just any group of people? I don't quite get the distinction if something like a US state qualifies. (Unless the people of a state do, but the state as an entity doesn't? Weird.)
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Replying to @geofurb
oh! something I totally forgot during writing was that I wanted to include the deep state as a kind of nebulous sibling egregore to the state (tl;dr is: what is legibly the leadership may not be the actual leadership)
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Replying to @allgebrah @geofurb
as for what groups of people are egregores, see the technical definition at the bottom but also consider: sometimes a group of people is simply a group of people
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Replying to @allgebrah
Agent-based intelligence at scale? It's kind of cool to have a word for that.
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