The obvious, known evil of social media is audience capture = overwhelming incentive to please one’s audience and the ALGORITHM, at the expense of one’s own beliefs and integrity and morality. You become a mindless thoughtless zombie of feeding your audience and the algorithm what it wants You also become insensitive and blind to anything …
Tag: Psychology
From Difference of Opinions to Blame Game to Strong Boundaries
Let’s say you like a STEAK — and she likes a SALAD You probably won’t have the same thing for dinner Now this is fine You just say: you get yourself your salad, and I’ll have my steak But let’s say you’re also very opinionated about superiority of steaks, over some shrubs You …
Fuzzy Logic of Treating Others Well; Treat Those You Keep Exceptionally
-You can treat others better or worse, obviously -And you can be intrinsically more valuable to them, or less Those two will decide what people will want to do with you You shouldn’t ever patch, or ameliorate, that which is already ruined. If you’re not meant for each other — admit it as fast …
Selfishness Compass
One could conceive of selfishness compass It would comprise of two axes Horizontal could measure the degree of self-absorption, self-interest Vertical could measure the degree of IGNORANCE At an extreme left there would be utter self-absorption, utter self-obsession, with utmost disregard for the interest of others, An utterly solipsistic perspective No inhibition in disregarding …
World Really Is Built For Men (And By Men)
Both sexes are identically crucial to the world because both are identically crucial to the continuation of HUMANITY (reproduction) (when we say “the world” — we mean WORLD as it pertains to sustaining humans otherwise, the world beyond humans will be quite fine, with us or without us, obviously) However men, (on average, obviously. …
We Intuitively Judge Others By Different Standards
We think we treats others equally We think we judge others by the same standards We don’t And on more than one level First there’s discrimination We don’t even acknowledge that we discriminate That’s because we don’t even know any more what it means Discriminate is to recognise a distinction The distinction just …
What Is A NEW Perspective, Actually?
What is a NEW perspective? New perspective is one of the two things: Someone looking further, or deeper, or broader Or someone looking from a different angle, different perspective Looking deeper, further, broader, is a function of lens, is it not? And what are the characteristics of the lens? Maybe it can zoom …
Judge People By Their WORST
Someone’s BEST can be result of many random factors: –LUCK -rare FLASH of brilliance -temporary MOTIVATION -even strategic effort to impress, get a job, etc Someone’s worst is far less volatile: -it at very least speaks of someone’s MINIMUM STANDARD -it’s the BEST for predicting the future — as it gives a RELIABLE BASELINE …
Hierarchies, Competition, Ego, Self and Collective Interests
You want to do better in order to get better outcomes for yourself, solve your problems better But indirectly in doing so — you become useful for others And then indirectly in doing so — you become placed higher in a hierarchy. Hierarchy of course has a purpose. It contains information about that which is …
FORGIVING Is A Form Of NOT GIVING A FUCK
FORGIVING is a form of NOT GIVING A FUCK It means you refuse to give a FUCK about seeing your pique soothed, your pride indulged, your honour asserted Should you even give a fuck? See, that’s the decision to be made The problem with giving a fuck, or NOT giving a fuck — …