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just as our ancestors eventually learned to defeat the megafauna though, i have faith that we will eventually learn to defeat the psychofauna. some of us, at least. it will be a messy and ugly period of learning, with a lot of casualities
i didn't signpost this too explicitly (overly explicit signposting attracts psychofauna attack), but I wrote both Friendly Ambitious Nerd and Introspect to arm people for this. but it's not quite enough, not yet. i will die not having done enough, so i gotta enjoy myself as i go
i must have ~100 threads abt long games by now but i still don't know if i've ever properly articulated what I can see that is so insane that nobody else seems to realize. you can sort of... you can trap psychic megafauna by running ropes around their legs. you can shape history
@visakanv https://t.co/Cqi5vCY35z
@visakanv And this threadhttps://t.co/jUbmvwuZCl
culture wars are partially downstream of the media-tech nation dropping paratrooper brainworms inside the OODA loops of those with fragile self-sense and people-sense, and recruiting them as cannon-fodder mooks into profitable-but-destructive psychofauna titan battles https://t.co/PBwSG4mZh0
but rather it’s an invocation of sets of ideas, vibes, emotions and so on. The ideas are people-shaped primarily because people are excellent at relating to other people, so a person-shaped box is the Trojan horse with the most amount of storage space for content https://t.co/kUL7ClqRB2
@visakanv Related threadhttps://t.co/7g0EvW2J4U
13/ You have to recognize that attention is one of the most valuable resources in the 21st century. So there are massive economic and political incentives to wrest it from you until you become either a WALL-E human, or a frothing-at-the-mouth outrage pawn. https://t.co/uObGFHJiTK
@visakanv befriend the good ones https://t.co/X0TqKHmB6T
