I knew this was kicking around on tumblr like a decade ago but if its on tiktok heh
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suppose the existence of mental illnesses that are socially transmissible, but perhaps only a small segment of the population is susceptible to any given mental illness now suppose the introduction of the internet
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this of course leads to the question "what is a mental illness anyway and who even gets to determine that huh" and of course this objection is absolutely right i dont think this is much a rebuttal of the basic point, affective point granted
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maybe one can imagine history as a series of waves of Types of Guy gaining a foothold in society, some lindier than others. ive proposed this elsewhere imagine an evolutionary game theoretical model basically. simple memetic selection. which types of guy survive to next stage
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homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto but societies seem to have vastly different arrays of types of guy maybe each is individually comprehensible but their relative distributions seem quite variable, and some societies parse as quite alien
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and of course there are emergent properties that fall out of the specific distribution of types of guy
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i was going to say something about lotka-volterra but realized i was just going to end up at the old meme but forget weak/strong etc, done to death. I wonder what other cycles over different slices of guy might existpic.twitter.com/GnDbOhPVWe
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in conclusion my guess is that there are no evolutionarily stable strategies for types of guy good luck!
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Replying to @eigenrobot
we take it for granted today, but a single message board has more extreme types of guy than a peasant in the 1400s would get in his whole lifetime
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