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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Alternate opinion: social affordances that get their benefits wrecked if articulated are either shitfuckery or an operation to fuck back the shitfuckers, and are thus an indicator of grossly suboptimal design.
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humans are suboptimal in many ways, but for the moment we're stuck with them
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It's entirely plausible that a large enough subset of humans can operate entirely without shitfuckery in principle, and produce only trace amounts of shitfuckery
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This is not plausible at all. Shitfuckery is very likely a fundamental aspect of human nature.
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would you say that it is likely a fundamental aspect of systems that adapt and reproduce?
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Shitfuckery is a weapon, so of course it would be common in nature. The language of the universe is violence.
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common vs. fundamental is a distinction of actually supreme importance though
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Nah, it's basically the difference between "can we eliminate shitfuckery completely", which is likely not a realistic engineering goal even if it is not "fundamental". But reducing it further (given that it was already appreciably reduces) is a worthwhile goal
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Which is to say, if you see "social affordances that get their benefits wrecked if articulated", chances are parasitism is afoot :3
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commensality and mutualism happen too okay ultra ijs
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I'd say commensality is characterized by a large comparative reduction in shitfuckery. Consider how much less involved the noble Demodex is with the art of shitfucking an immune system compared to any worthwhile parasite. I'd argue that mutualism involves even less shitfuckery
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