People in a context vortex are viscerally aware they’re in a one but somehow can’t find an intellectual way out of it. So ideas churn around in a vortex without getting anywhere. Vorticity is flow with a clear vector, yet bounded.
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Something like a generalization of my idea of a manufactured normalcy field but including weirdness. Glitches are noticeable but not actionable. Trying to process a leaky abstraction from inside.
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Things like depression, OODA loop collapse are examples. What’s common to all is that an external lifeline has to penetrate via a glitch that you can grab, to stop swirling and start climbing out, without knowing what’s “out” there.
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Redpills are not quite it. You’re not necessarily getting to a truer reality, just one where non-circular thinking is possible again.
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So Hofstadter's strange loops?
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Nah not that esoteric
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i usually speak of those as attractors and their basins in conceptual phase space
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what is poetry, alex
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I imagine "radiation" cuts to the chase better than "vortex" does?
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premium mediocrity vortex
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