hypothesis: interweaving study of a subject with the subject's history works so well because it leverages social cognition faculties toward the process, at the cost of using up some of the student's Dunbar number on the subject's historical figures
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bold of you to assume I have principles and am not just being brazenly intuitive as always but seriously if relationship capacity can be used up by the dead or imaginary (short of active tulpamancy) then a good story is a socially damaging memetohazard, even propaganda aside.
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i kinda think it can, though at a level of investment that if not active tulpamancy is definitely haphazard passive tulpamancy. people talk about it all the time tbh, the characters who they feel they have a personal relationship with, like Jesus
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