Dumping on normies isn’t particularly interesting most of the time,
I thought gossip was the thing for the human brain—personally, I find these ways of digging your own grave quite fascinating 🍿
fantasies live in a separate magisterium where they suspend disbelief, and they never think about how to actualize those fantasies
to overthink potential reasons for the observed ratio of “fantasy → planning” and “separate magisteria”—I imagine that the genes that correlated with agency about fire fantasies found themselves in burning villages..
reductio ad absurdum for the idea of wanting more agency about fantasies—“how to make a thinking machine?” .. perhaps we need more grandmothers to slap bright-eyed boys on the wrists, not to pour more billions of dollars into agentic fantasies?
but I agree there is enough room for benign fantasies to make it into planning (..but then perhaps keep the plan under a lid for most stuff, like for a fantasy that involves stripping John off his sunglasses [not you as a person, John as a para-social sexualized object] - the appeal is only in the imagination, not that I would want to attempt doing it for real)
I thought gossip was the thing for the human brain—personally, I find these ways of digging your own grave quite fascinating 🍿
to overthink potential reasons for the observed ratio of “fantasy → planning” and “separate magisteria”—I imagine that the genes that correlated with agency about fire fantasies found themselves in burning villages..
reductio ad absurdum for the idea of wanting more agency about fantasies—“how to make a thinking machine?” .. perhaps we need more grandmothers to slap bright-eyed boys on the wrists, not to pour more billions of dollars into agentic fantasies?
but I agree there is enough room for benign fantasies to make it into planning (..but then perhaps keep the plan under a lid for most stuff, like for a fantasy that involves stripping John off his sunglasses [not you as a person, John as a para-social sexualized object] - the appeal is only in the imagination, not that I would want to attempt doing it for real)