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
(example of principle, not exhaustive catalog of relevant phenomena)
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trying to generalize from that; I have a concern that if someone is carrying around a belief that fragile, having to shield it from information will close off opportunities in many seemingly-unrelated areas
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Replying to @chaosprime
adding to that, members have to coordinate to protect said affordance and you pretty much have an egregore on your hand and then some of those affordances impose negative externalities on others
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Replying to @lunavis @chaosprime
to put it uncharitably, it seems kind of like contracting tapeworms for weight loss purposes
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you certainly do have an egregore on your hands. this is why we egregore your analogy has more going for it than any of us would like i'm sure known implementations certainly have room for improvement
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✨ Lunavis ✨ Retweeted ✨ Lunavis ✨
it also points to a tension between freedom of information and freedom of conscience https://twitter.com/lunavis/status/790543849714221056 … also prescient
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Chaos Retweeted GigglePutsch
another fine example that's related but less related than it lookshttps://twitter.com/GigglePutsch/status/1188526464800579584 …
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somewhat undermined by insufficient occultism i.e. thinking the concept started in 2012 rather than some particular formulation, apparently because of not realizing it's another spelling of gris-gris which dates to the 17th century at the very latest
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Replying to @chaosprime @lunavis
this strikes me as yet another "make people die for cow moonity by lying to them" operation tbh
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this framing isn't exactly wrong but seems to not recognize any value to the individual in their village not being overrun by raiders
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