https://www.ystrickler.com/thepostindividual/
The internet facilitates multiple selves, so what does feeling like “yourself” even mean?
“fragmentation” of the digital self; challenging the norm, which signals the post-individualism
Post-individualism: focus on community
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Dark Forest concept
- Bastardization of “Fermes” paradox
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Inventing the Individual
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The Weirdest People in the World
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Seems like the church always ends up the root of why institutions exist
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Individuality is related to memory; projection
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It’s harder to assume that someone is a person vs AI, bots, etc
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“authenticity is maybe in spirit even more than action?”
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Individuality is mainly here to sell you product; easier to target — individuality exists for consumerism
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Fragmentation has always existed; the difference is that the internet has accelerated community building and also the proliferation (?) to make it easier to sell product
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George Trow - Context(?) — shifting from meaning to demographics
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US Defense Department wanted to fund ressearch to identify extraordinary people and ultimately, how do we find some “essence” to contend with modern capitalist life? Social scientists were given grants — invented “Creativity” — making “genius” democratic
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https://ideaspace.ystrickler.com/p/the-dark-forest-anthology-of-the
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“One of the great memes”
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Capacity for identity is infinite, energy is not.
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What is the role of the body in a world with agents and bots