the thing that annoyed me the most was "if you're not super upset you're bad" ugh
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https://twitter.com/ctbeiser/status/796411582188167170 … I wish I had time to sit down and figure out why 'you need to feel bad' is a thing.
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my current direction is that emotional similarity may be beneficial somehow.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/792125901110648832 …
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aligning affective states is DEFINITELY a coordination mechanism http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2012/01/complexity-of-emotion-in-authoritarian.html …
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genuine question: to what degree is affective alignment primordial to viewpoint exclusion?
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I think it might be like how money ends up being a proxy for reputation. A learned behavior that helps scale narrative? Idk
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my first instinct is that the behavior is a side effect of something else, a quirk like the blind spot in the eye.
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emotional contagion makes me think of ant alarm pheromones. Then I imagine scorpion surrounded by fire who kill themselves.
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or hypnotizing chickens and all the weird things that happen due to optical illusions in processing stimulus.
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it feels like a supernormal stimulus response. Something that may only happen at scale, b/c it was evolved for small groups
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interesting! but it does seem "useful" at large scales, in the sense of still being present in our large-scale rituals
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yeah makes me wonder what the alternative would be that would actually be worse
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