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Not saying that's what happens with rats, but it's the pattern of a high-dimensional false consciousness solving for something much simpler for someone on the outside leading to a fragility/impedance mismatch... stably growing orgs have matched inside/outside impedance
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2 fictional examples are Rick on Rick and Morty running a miniature civilization to power his spaceship battery, and Mysterio in spider-man movie creating an elaborate illusion thing to steal Stark's VR glasses from Peter Parker... real-life versions often in politics and sales
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if you do, i'd be curious for longer response to the "elephant in the brain" idea that in order to successfully convince others you first convince yourself. seems like a pattern many founders use, but from other thread sounds like you find it limiting. would love to read more
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didn't get too far with EITB tbf... I like kevin's essays a lot but the book didn't quite hit for me enough to finish convincing yourself to convince others is certainly one pattern... george costanza: "it's not a lie if you believe in it" etc It's just not the only one
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there's a dimension of this you may or may not have noticed... if the leader is *charismatic*, often what they're solving for is validation of megalomaniac self-perceptions, which is not actually the same thing as messianic spiritual direction to followers
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i think the internal experience of successful sociopaths is maybe not "ha ha i see the matrix, scurry around for me" but "wow i'm really special for creating this amazing thing for everyone, what's wrong with getting a little extra for me using ways that only i can see"
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Again, that's *one* possible experience I think one of the mistakes people consistently make in applying GP is to treat "sociopath" as a fixed archetype same as losers and clueless. Sociopath is defined by *absence* of strong or fixed self-perceptions and higher freedom
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it's a version of the typical mind fallacy at work, but worse because it projects a simpler, more limited range of experiences onto a more complex, wider range... like say a chimp looking at human behaviors and thinking, "that genius weakling ape has many magic banana machines"
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internal experience eigenvectors I've kinda cataloged to the extent they can be inferred externally: voidism, sadism, masochism, megalomania, sex/$ maximization, messianic loneliness, loving-kindness, science crackpottery, history-denting, auteur aesthetic fulfilment, eternalism
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