unfortunate thing about crucial social affordances whose cost-benefit structures can't be articulated because articulating them would wreck their benefits is that when someone wants to tear them down because they've decided it's what's making them sad, you don't have a lot to say
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Replying to @chaosprime @DogOfPoasts
how does legibility harm its benefits?
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Replying to @lunavis @DogOfPoasts
the answer to this question is a cognitohazard; please confirm voluntary cognitohazard exposure before proceeding
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Replying to @lunavis @DogOfPoasts
untagging poast dog; poast dog, exercise caution before expanding thread
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Replying to @chaosprime @lunavis
because knowing that you can get a steady dopamine flow from believing that you're personally important to a big weirdo in the sky whether or not he's actually there is an obstacle to believing same, not a facilitator of it
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Replying to @chaosprime @lunavis
disagree with this statement as I don't see how it impedes the belief, but this might be my own weird cognitive layout
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we can't all be natural born chaos magicians paul
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(truth value 0.2 - 0.6)
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Replying to @chaosprime @lunavis
the dopamine flow is in fact further evidence of God's Plan, rewarding you for your faith in an immediate and tangible way, add SJ to my name i'm good at this
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