Came up with a model I call the need/want/ignore social psychology model. The world has 3 kinds of people in relation to you: people you need in your life, people you want in your life, and people you’re indifferent to. It’s not symmetric so there’s 9 kinds of relationship.
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Off-diagonal pairs: I-need-you-want: exploiter/exploiter I-need-you-ignore and I-want-you-ignore is various patterns of dehumanization ranging from stalking to ghosting. Details left as homework.
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Much less overlap than you’d think, so to first approximation most relationships are nearly pure examples of 1 of the 9.
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Fill each cell with the number of people you have in each cell of the 3x3 and you have a picture of your entanglement in society. Computing the eigenvalues would probably reveal something.
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You can see the role a particular social graph plays in your life by construct a matrix just from that and subtracting it from your full matrix.
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Damn I miss having good reasons to use linear algebra for shit so now I use it for bullshit. Now thinking of
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... LU decomposition, canonical forms for NWI social graphs and other uselessly overwrought ideas. But unnecessary math aside, this is probably the bleakest social model I’ve ever made up, if you work out the implications. As a species we’re more crazy than sane.
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This square-off is _really_ good. Intimates and enemies fall under need-need.
#Twitter is my want (and my most wanton) sphere. Ignore is most people, largely social cytoplasm keeping the wheels of the world greased, but the faces of whom I cannot remember.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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