Extremely good video. Goes into how game-theory is deliberately reductive in a politicized to normalize socially irrational behaviours of selfishness based on expected utility theory and to denormatize sociologically rational behaviour.
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Utility theory is essentially the mathematics of inventing excuses to justify selfishness and then deciding anybody who doesn't agree with you is at fault. Its also why economics by-en-large are on the whole, assholes who violate social contract and hence can't actually maintain relationships.
sep 1, 2025, 2:48 pm • 9 0 • view
Its the hole in the heart of every billionaire who doesn't understand why the people around him don't want to be around him if they're not being paid.
sep 1, 2025, 2:48 pm • 8 0 • view
The language capture is genuinely miserable. This theft of the commons is Deleuzian Deterritorialization, and must be unlearned.
sep 1, 2025, 2:50 pm • 5 0 • view
If you write science fiction, take this into account in how people speak.
sep 1, 2025, 2:50 pm • 5 0 • view
Its the forced synonymization of mathematics as rationality laundering, and of violent selfishness as rational is a cultural manipulation borne of the spectre of communism in which capitalism expected to bore out some hyper-exaggerated version of itself to preserve itself against communsim.
sep 1, 2025, 3:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Just like the Foxbat and the nuclear delivery systems and the radar technology and so many other "Russia actually was a lot less advanced than everybody expected
sep 1, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
And the US assumed the worst by being mathematically rationally and systemically irrational" (because they assumed technocrats would always make good decisions because technocracy was their idealized endstate).
sep 1, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
The US actually invented a golem and fought it instead of the other country Drunk on its own propaganda the US tripped balls and saw a benedryl hatman and took steroids to fight the hatman the US is dying of catastrophic irreversible strokes, kidney problems and now strokes caused by said steroids
sep 1, 2025, 3:06 pm • 8 0 • view
Which is funny because the neighbour who the US thought was the hatman now has a son That son has learned they can pretend to be the hatman to make the US take MORE steroids to hurt itself, so he doesn't have to fight the US himself That's how Trump was elected, via Russian election interference
sep 1, 2025, 3:06 pm • 5 0 • view
The US invented psudorationalization via econolaundering (which I'm coining, to say the numbers add up even if they don't represent reality) which is then conned in econological warfare, where healthy checks are circumvented.
sep 1, 2025, 3:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Can you expand on this point specifically? Watch out how, in what ways, & why? My current forefront project has a lot to do with this topic so I'd like your thoughts.
sep 2, 2025, 4:37 am • 1 0 • view
Economics is the turning of everything into markets (eg, the dating market) "Rational" as selfish over social "Logical" as material over sane Returns over outcomes The collapse of A/B words together (eg, incel) Normal, normalized Thing-maxxing Economists is the incelligence of incel impulses
sep 2, 2025, 9:20 am • 6 1 • view
What does that have to do with how people talk in sci fi, tho?
sep 2, 2025, 9:24 am • 1 0 • view
Because one of the worst pains of future-SF is when everybody talks exactly as they do the day a story was written.
sep 2, 2025, 9:26 am • 1 0 • view
Im too stupid to put these ideas together, I get the laziness of that, but what does that have to do with the thread writ large?
sep 2, 2025, 9:27 am • 1 0 • view
I can't compact this down for you further. I cannot do the reasoning for you. Sometimes, you must do the reasoning yourself. Read the thread until you get it, or don't.
sep 2, 2025, 9:33 am • 1 0 • view