Optimizing for the icon
Having an iconic understanding of the signified, which then is optimized for directly.
E.g.: here
E.g.: People ask “how to become a writer”. As if “becoming a writer” were something you do. Being a writer is a description of someone, based on what he or she does. A writer is just someone who writes.
E.g.: Every man wants to be big and strong. If you’re subordinated to available social concepts that are available then your only solution to “be big” is “be a bodybuilder”. If you’re subordinated to available social concepts then your only solution to “be strong” is “become a powerlifter”. Yet men still want to be both big and strong. Hence the frankenconcept: “powerbuilder”. → social epicycles, PATCH, given black-box doing etc
Normalcy
The ‘highest abstraction’ Ideology in a society - who we are, what we are, what we’re about, what’s good, what’s bad, what we do.
Through its answers to those questions it orients behavior, toward Coordination.
Non-doing X, aka Not-doing X, Merely doing X, Allowing X, X
What naturally happens. The default. What comes up when you’re not “trying” to do anything. Things that happen without being actively willed. Often only understood or classified retrospectively. One is less the one acting and more an observer or a witness to the action.
Feels like “flo” or like action “just happens” or “just emerges” without a felt sense of agency, identification, or ownership of the action.
Also known as “wu wei”.
E.g.: “Shower thoughts”
Neuroticism
Behavioral rigidity and inflexibility. A consequence of excessive agential layering. To be expected as each agent is an emulation being runran by the agent who spun it, and thus only has a portion of their resources available.
The more agents someone has iteratively spun, i.e. the more ‘layered’ they are, the less behavioral flexibility they have.
Imagine a balloon getting very twisted upon itself:
In extremis you get an ‘NPC’ - someone with shockingly little behavioral flexibility, whose behavior, beliefs, and opinions are fungible with everyone else who is as layered as them.
Narrative
Sermons which utterance wasn’t sufficient to make Social Reality. Usually in active dispute.
E.g.: “Guaidó is the legitimate president of Venezuela” “The elections were fair” “The elections were stolen” “Not my president”
Merging
The capacity consciousness has to take on different vehicles. See this thread.