Example: aliens land and you go, “why is everyone surprised? It’s a big universe; we’ve seen it in a hundred movies; law of large numbers; Drake equation; blah blah!” If you aren’t surprised if aliens land on earth tomorrow, your surprised circuits have been fried by cynicism.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/973390998800773120 …
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gives me the feeling that a lot of public surprisal is really performative and v separate from *actual* surprisal, the emotion. So lack of surprise may not mean broken surprisal circuits at all, just that someone has no reason to signal
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Replying to @androgynandre @Aelkus
I don’t think it’s easy to hide real surprise. I do think cynicism is one cause (that I have anecdotal evidence of), but there are certain;y others. Depression is another big one. If everything looks like grey, aging shit to you (like Stan in South Park) you can’t be surprised
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