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# Ribbonfarm
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- A [[thing]] on [[twitter]]: https://twitter.com/ribbonfarm
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- By [[vgr]] and [[sarahdoingthing]]
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- Read https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/03/13/predictable-identities-4/ (the whole series)
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- Lots related to [[The Selfish Gene]]
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- Perhaps also to [[The Evolution of Cooperation]]
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- Stereotypes are actually surprisingly effective. Their main problem is we have too few (?). "Studying cultures is about acquiring many useful stereotypes"
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- [[Outgroup homogeneity effect]]
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- "That’s why small talk about last night’s episode of Game of Thrones isn’t a waste of time. It communicates: __I am like you, you can model me well by looking at yourself, we can cooperate__."
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- On creepiness: "The perception of creepiness is a
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response to the ambiguity of threat. […] While they may not be overtly
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threatening, individuals who display unusual patterns of nonverbal
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behavior, odd emotional responses or highly distinctive physical
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characteristics are outside the norm, and by definition unpredictable."
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- Deviating from common expectations costs [idiosyncrasy credits](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiosyncrasy_credit).
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- Read [[The Intelligent Social Web]]. Seems relevant to multiple identities and conflicts arising from those (e.g. what happens when one goes back to old friends/family).
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- On big shifts to beliefs not supported by a scaffolding of smaller beliefs: "Without this scaffolding, adopting the new idea will promptly make the
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world less predictable even if it may be a better-predicting model in
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the long term. This feels bad, and your brain will pull out all the
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stops to avoid it: confirmation bias, [isolated demands for rigor](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demands-for-rigor/), flat out denial."
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- [[Newcomblike problems]]
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- It's helpful to make it easy for other people to predict us whenever it is low cost: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/08/28/predictable-identities-16-newcomblike-part-ii/
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- [[Persistent Non-Symbolic Experiences]]
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- [[Entropic Brain Hypothesis]]: Our brains evolved to model the environment and minimize surprise and
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uncertainty. Since our environment is complex and dynamic, so are more
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evolved brains. fMRI allows us to measure __brain entropy__, how
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unpredictable is one’s brain state in the future based on its current
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state. It’s a proxy for a brain’s flexibility and complexity.
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- The [[Default Mode Network]] suppresses entropy.
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- "This post was written by my conscious model of the self, a mild anxiety in my stomach, [Alberto Albero](https://twitter.com/celestialboon/status/1208371376953942022), and Buddhism. In what sense is it mine?"
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- It is easy to fixate on the "markings" for an identity instead of its "core": "**adopting X as an identity makes you optimize for being predicted as X, rather than for X itself**.
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If you tell people about the book you’re writing they’ll predict that
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you’re a writer and will treat you accordingly, reinforcing your
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identity. If you merely accumulate words in a draft file, they won’t.".
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- Identities and control: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/02/05/predictable-identities-25-external-control/
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[//begin]: # "Autogenerated link references for markdown compatibility"
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[thing]: thing "thing"
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[twitter]: twitter "Twitter"
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[vgr]: vgr "VGR"
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[sarahdoingthing]: sarahdoingthing "Sarahdoingthing"
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[//end]: # "Autogenerated link references" |