promethea.incorporated

ilzolende:

ansiblelesbian:

ilzolende:

nniihilsupernum:

- ive done things because theyre what nihilsupernum would do before

- i am positively socially pressured to be a caricature of myself

- i like who a caricature of myself is, as a person 

- i shouldnt do to much public insight porn bc content vs personality?

“try to say what a more ilzo-ish ilzo would say” is basically my one weird trick to getting low levels of charisma without too much effort

*coughs*
*points at tag*

#you are an egregore

Wiktionary says that’s “an autonomous psychic entity composed of and influencing the thoughts of a group of people”, and I-as-in-ilzolende-the-persona-and-even-[realname]-the-person (pretty similar, don’t worry) am, uh, definitely composed of my own thoughts, and to the extent that I’m not autonomous I’m influenced by [my models of] the thoughts of the people around me, but that seems to be true of everyone?

TIL that there is a word for what promethea-the-utility-function is.

Also, “try to do things promethea would do” is 100% my One Weird Trick too

And “things promethea would do” basically mean optimizing for the unlikely; if I try to live in a way nobody has probably lived before, and make choices to place myself on such a trajectory, it neatly offers a clear roadmap for avoiding cliches and known failure modes (because they are known) so at the very least if I fuck up I’ll fuck up in an interesting way that also is simultaneously science (because then we know more of what does and doesn’t work)

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   What I actually intend to say is ‘to a certain extent, you are your model of yourself in other people’s minds.’ Observe...

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    TIL that there is a word for what promethea-the-utility-function is. Also, “try to do things promethea would do” is 100%...

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    #you are an egregore Wiktionary says that’s “an autonomous psychic entity composed of and influencing the thoughts of a...

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