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never understood the whole celebrity attraction thing but am beginning to realize a parasocial relationship entails a phantom of the same intimacy that makes someone you know well so much more attractive than a rando
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take two people who look identical, but you have slightly more knowledge on the internal world of one of them; guarantee you'll be more attracted to them
those extra few bits give you a higher resolution model, and hence an increased ability to imagine y'all in situations
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counterparty simulation is a core pillar of consciousness, one of the primary activities it developed to enable
as such, we naturally seek out information on features of our social reality
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RT @pee_zombie
human communication, and more generally communication btwn sentient agents, is capable of utilizing a rather unique type of error-correction: counterparty simulation
a little model of us lives rent-free in the minds of those who…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1466444778791387138
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the one-directional aspect of parasocial relationships doesn't factor into their relevance; a modern celebrity is comparable to someone at the top of your local status hierarchy, in that they appear equally inaccessible, and yet everyone is inevitably measured against them
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the topmost stratum of your social spheres determines the local dimensions of salience, as values are differential across groups; a society with the physically impressive at the top plays radically different dominance games than one with the intellectual or cultural
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to make sense of the dynamics & dark matter of any social group, one needs only to note the axes along which their celebrities excel; the local games will reward excellence in those domains