Memetics

Memes, egregores and ideologies as evolving forces: narrative capture, hyperstition, cultural evolution

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 5,866 posts.

Trusted voices in Memetics

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  1. visakanv — trusted by 166 posters here
  2. nosilverv — trusted by 146 posters here
  3. DefenderOfBasic — trusted by 125 posters here
  4. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 124 posters here
  5. TylerAlterman — trusted by 126 posters here
  6. eigenrobot — trusted by 96 posters here
  7. the_wilderless — trusted by 91 posters here
  8. eshear — trusted by 113 posters here
  9. repligate — trusted by 68 posters here
  10. RichDecibels — trusted by 87 posters here
  11. Malcolm_Ocean — trusted by 84 posters here
  12. exgenesis — trusted by 77 posters here

Top posts in Memetics

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  1. the stuff you joke about (even ironically or whatever) has a way of shaping your reality so be careful and deliberate with that stuff. a lot of people out here fumbling their own bags by joking… (visakanv) — 59 likes
  2. everything 👏 is 👏 monocausal 👏 and 👏 specifically 👏 results 👏 from 👏 whatever 👏 shit 👏 I'm 👏 on 👏 about 👏 at 👏 any 👏 given 👏 time (eigenrobot) — 56 likes
  3. Prophet: ok i'm gonna blow ur fuckin mind are u ready Disciples: yes Prophet: love people Disciples: [writing down] be a cop, got it (visakanv) — 53 likes
  4. If lemur discourse doesn't hyperstition a performance art group that just follows Curzi around next vibecamp staring at him silently then we've failed as a community (nosilverv) — 47 likes
  5. "Memes. I think they're an underappreciated art form. Everyday, a buncha kids – some grown-ass adults, too – sit on their asses, scroll through the internet, looking for some depraved shit. They… (visakanv) — 42 likes
  6. Have you ever noticed that ideologies are always formed around writers who love to write a lot of words? They often cover the same few ideas, over and over, in different ways. But mostly it's a LOT… (eshear) — 39 likes
  7. if you can convince someone that doing a thing is infinitely good or infinitely bad you can control their behavior pretty much arbitrarily. you can get them to do things that look completely insane… (QiaochuYuan) — 38 likes
  8. our ancestors got picked off by megafauna, our peers get picked off by psychofauna (visakanv) — 35 likes
  9. a short introduction to psychofauna, riffing on some ideas from neoplatonic Christianity: imagine that every thing and every category of thing has an angel associated with it, the angel of England,… (RichDecibels) — 35 likes
  10. After years of meme jealousy, second-guessing, millions of repetitions, it finally comes full circle to where it needed to go Giving memes happy endings could be an entire genre… (forthrighter) — 34 likes
  11. if the term "tpot" spreads far enough, used by completely unrelated groups of ppl, it will revert to its original meaning: literally "this part of twitter", whatever part of twitter OP happens to be… (mechanical_monk) — 33 likes
  12. being taken over by an ideology for the first time is a lot like being in love for the first time. you don't know what it's like for it to end. you can't imagine being obsessed by anything else. and… (QiaochuYuan) — 31 likes
  13. it turns out sincerely believing the world is going to end really fucks people up and it really fucks group dynamics up. there is a reason end-of-the-world narratives are an attractor for unhealthy… (QiaochuYuan) — 31 likes
  14. one of the funny quirks of the way humans and narratives work is that people tend to be more interested in the stories of those who struggle their way to success, than those who succeed without… (visakanv) — 31 likes
  15. “I’m using this slang ironically” The slang can’t tell that you’re using it ironically. Neither can your self-image. Never participate in an ideological movement ironically. That’s how you get… (eshear) — 31 likes
  16. i'm so proud of this meme's longevity and remixability 🌀⛵️🐉 technically anybody could've come up with "put two extremes on opposite ends on a painting of odysseus navigating scylla and charybdis",… (visakanv) — 29 likes
  17. "We are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with" Well, we are also the 1,000,000 words we read that repeatedly cut the same grooves into thoughtspace in a vast network of interwoven… (eshear) — 29 likes
  18. A name like WhoreHole being downstream of VibeHole (I assume?) being downstream of VibeCamp is an nice example of Christopher Alexander’s Unfolding. You think this name just fell out of a coconut… (visakanv) — 29 likes
  19. someone wrote an incredible fiction/nonfiction book about what happens in the year 2025 and it was such a beautiful inspiring vision with step by step instructions that people just started making it… (DefenderOfBasic) — 29 likes
  20. The world is full of anglerfish psychofauna that dangle a glowing thing to lure you in and consume you. Please help me complete this bestiary of ideologies that seduce Twitter people like us 👇… (TylerAlterman) — 29 likes
  21. in retrospect maybe a memetic advantage i don't talk or think much about having is that i was AGI-pilled for long enough that i know what having a totalizing narrative about the most important thing… (QiaochuYuan) — 28 likes
  22. me, scrolling the timeline and seeing "ayy lmao 🌀⛵️🐉" "focus on what you want to see more of" "do 100 things" "ppl wanna be fuckable more than they wanna fuck" "joke about outcomes you want"… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  23. for people wondering about the origin of “psychofauna”, it was originally a contraction of “psychic megafauna”. I encountered the word “egragore” multiple times and found it abstract and hard to… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  24. The dynamic I think tpot clued in on is that the modal egregore is actually pretty hostile to human flourishing and benefits when the mind-body connection is broken https://t.co/qkKCEH6QYd (johnsonmxe) — 27 likes
  25. I'm pretty here for memetic literacy propaganda posters https://t.co/D3Yhzc45Af (Malcolm_Ocean) — 27 likes
  26. If you're wondering what vibecamp was - it was an egregore coming online, the local organizational principle of which is not just love but boundless curiosity and playWe finally have a mecha-suit to… (exgenesis) — 25 likes
  27. I've been using the metaphor of demon possession lately to describe culture war dynamics I'll try to explain... (RichDecibels) — 25 likes
  28. they don't tell you when you sign up for the internet that you're learning to notice, harmonize with, and participate constructively in a self-organizing, emergent collective consciousness at the… (tasshinfogleman) — 25 likes
  29. "slop" was a really good recent memetic coinage. we really needed it. kudos and props to wherever that came from. here in the age of slop. the slopocalypse (QiaochuYuan) — 24 likes
  30. This is because the way you create an ideology is to create a lens with which to see the entire world, all of the things. This involves imprinting a very large psychic object into someone's head. (eshear) — 23 likes
  31. an egg was laid inside of me and when it hatched the first song from its lips was a song of utter destruction, of the entire universe consumed in flames, because some careless humans hadn't thought… (QiaochuYuan) — 22 likes
  32. A lot of weird quirks about language and about humans are due to the fact that (1) language opens you up to lots of different mind-control attacks, but (2) you can’t opt-out of language. It’s just… (johnsonmxe) — 22 likes
  33. we can divide tpot into several mythological regions, afaict e/acc = Daedalus Twitter Really into structure & invention, cannot see consequences for shit, aggressive left-hemisphere capture.… (the_wilderless) — 22 likes
  34. coordination problems are solved w stories (exgenesis) — 22 likes
  35. and the funny thing then is... when weirdos find each other, and do things that other weirdos find cool, next thing you know... now other people think it's cool, too by helping yourself, and by… (visakanv) — 21 likes
  36. rookie mistake for smart people everywhere is to obsess over truth at the expense of memetic fitness (RichDecibels) — 21 likes
  37. None of you are living rent free in my mind. All of you have been put to work. You are all in the coal mine of ideas in here. (PrinceVogel) — 21 likes
  38. gonna be hard to explain this but the stuff today about the openAI board losing trust in sama but having trouble pointing to specifics exactly matches the energetic signature. we are talking deep… (QiaochuYuan) — 21 likes
  39. But the normie’s defenses make him less agile at addressing novel attacks — and the wordcel never sleeps. Because normies don’t feel the full force of words, they’re especially vulnerable to… (johnsonmxe) — 21 likes
  40. You guys really really have to abandon the TPOT label. It was already a memetic hazard because it indefinitely propagates to every adjacent Venn diagram intersection on the social map, which kills… (PrinceVogel) — 21 likes
  41. "power corrupts" is a targeted memetic virus. It's designed to work on those with integrity, so they stop competing, leaving empty seats for those who show up to seize it (DefenderOfBasic) — 21 likes
  42. Here is my "memetics 101" article. This summarizes my understanding of this field, why it's important, and who is actively doing work that I am paying attention to https://t.co/S48sCADhMr (DefenderOfBasic) — 21 likes
  43. everything that a mainstream ideology lies about / refuses to see / keeps in its shadow is a weapon that it hands to any fringe ideology that is willing to step up and claim it, and the internet… (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  44. “focus your energy on what you want to see more of” has some distressing implications for the whole genre of dystopian fiction. it suggests that dystopian fiction doesn’t successfully act as a… (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  45. yud wrote harry potter and the methods of rationality on purpose as a recruitment tool. he is explicit about this, and it worked. many very smart people very good at math were attracted into his… (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  46. can’t believe I’ve never done this synthesis before: the job of a king is to focus the time and energy of his people on what they would like to see more of https://t.co/O4NFz9BBPH (visakanv) — 20 likes
  47. "i decided to meet people the old fashioned way" is a current example of what I call a filler meme. memes that nobody really thinks is any funny and nobody really enjoys, but people sorta just go… (visakanv) — 20 likes
  48. when you broadcast this INFINITE BAD signal in your lengthy corpus of online writing you are, in a very specific way, screaming at the top of your lungs, and it attracts people who also feel like… (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  49. in both cases your brain gets gentrified unless you take very deliberate action to resist it https://t.co/SeRPwfbJOX (visakanv) — 20 likes
  50. succumbed to psychofauna attack https://t.co/4pODkVHtmP (visakanv) — 20 likes

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