👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

how does one take an entire society to therapy?

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much of society's ills can be understood as these same internal tensions of dualism writ large, thrashing & externalizing entropy; where can we find a civilizational psychiatrist?

how does an entire people undergo spiritual metamorphosis?

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393998837774225408?t=XG9jLEFWwrieKHe6wiMJJA
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1542281394172399616

if there's any lesson here, it's that whatever psychology has to say about a single human mind applies to larger cognitive systems too, a la Hari Seldon. we already discuss Internal Family systems and Societies of Mind, implicitly acknowledging this similarity.

what people really are objecting to is not the concept of tradition and norm, but rather their degenerate form, social ossification, ie the state where affordances for increasing the temperature have been rendered off-limits, or the system has lost energy

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which factors impact ossification dynamics? seems correlated with trauma and generally speaking periods of social upheaval. wars, famines, recessions. perhaps these…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1620125389707431937

multiagent social systems can be understood as a macrocosm of these same dynamics writ large

norms are amoral, being simply a crystallization of the cooling social system, comparable to a stable self-concept

from a high level this process can be described as a simulated annealing of the Self, the temperature of the system corresponding to internal tension, the overflow of which catalyzes chasm-crossing

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generally speaking, turning up the temperature is a good strategy for exploring complex optimization landscapes with poor global visibility, as it allows you to escape local maxima by catalyzing chasm-crossing https://twit…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1498105211042291716

here too, the dynamic is fractally biphasic, with repeated cycles of isolation, reinvention, and social confirmation. we explore identity space and then exploit a certain position within it.

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thinking about how the explore/exploit dichotomy (ht @ulkar_aghayeva @tszzl) captures the dynamics of our lives, thru the lens of the humble slime mold, physarum polycephalum

we share a fractally-biphasic lifecycle, w/ nested p…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1441834524028162048

on the personal level, this same dynamic manifests as going MIA from your usual social scene when you feel dissatisfied with your current persona; we cannot reinvent ourselves while observed by those who know only our current selves

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I often go thru periods of my life when I want to hide or run away, to escape the influence of that last element; I often resent the parts of me the causal chains of which are rooted outs…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1620130392253804545

the energy previously locked up in this tension is freed to run free, generating chaos and new possibilities, which leads to cultural production, alternative lifestyles, and other societal refactorings

this tends to demarcate periods characterized by a certain ecstatic air

w/ the erosion of the underlying ideological frameworks, this system began to unravel; the egregore grows weaker w/ each lost memetic node. this is self-perpetuating, meme-holders increasingly incentivised to defect from the equilibrium, eventually triggering a preference cascade

traditional norms relied on a system of intersubjective tension by which participants would mutually keep each other in check thru perpetual surveillance; the potential energy trapped within was then sublimated into other domains, particularly the intellectual and economic

ngl this was me and being bullied for it actually helped bc it forced the issue and made me question why anyone cared, and then, why I was even doing it in the first place

bullying is an intersubjective regulatory mechanism converging social agents

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I think the day I truly grew up was when I realized that most of my school bullies were just cringing at how badly I was embarrassing & were trying to help me stop that t…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1485991032974200836

the irony is that this very cope further isolates them from their peers and entrenches itself, when in reality what would help them most is interrogating why they Need To Get It, unlike everyone else who is just playing along

they feel left out of The Game and overwhelmed by how quickly fads evolve; they feel like they're missing something and that they Don't Get It, and this anxiety prompts the development of a defense mechanism, namely the belief that they're Better Than It, esp if they read a lot

teenage edgelords tend to be annoying about using archaic verbiage in large part due to insecurity about mimicry-driven linguistic provenance chains (slang) and instead rebase onto one they can exhibit competence with (literature-based)

made this in middle school for a class project. explains a lot tbh

the human equivalent is very padded sneakers

car suspension systems are an abstraction mechanism allowing us to operate on a lower-dimensional model of reality, by applying a moving window average function to the road's surface, simplifying the worldmodel and hence the requisite control interface

the current causal footwear meta is fashion crocs w air hole charms. u wear them strap-forward and when u wanna go Turbo Mode you take them off and flip the strap back so everyone knows youre serious. this has been a PSA

every system must be made robust against the commodification of intellectual labor thru financialized noospheric upload

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any agent can be uniquely identified in terms of their goals & capabilities

these can be codified as economic incentive structures & given Will thru memetic spread to willing hosts

after all, if you convince people to do what you want to make happen, does it matter who does it?
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1511820765078900737

you'll also need some kind of market mechanism to control for DoS attacks and drive reviewer efficiency, as well as a proof-of-humanity system to gate entry to the newly-prestigious "human author" category

but this is the future