I started this blog by describing human behavior through the model of an NPC as a funny way to demonstrate how all of us can sometimes be quite stupid. The NPC metaphor is not meant to be dehumanizing but I rather intend it to allow ourselves a bit of distance between who we really areContinue reading “A personal interlude”
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NPCs frame truth into strawmen, whataboutism to do about it
Arguments don’t change the beliefs of NPCs. Yet NPCs can be convicted of being moral cockroaches through social pressure from moral-debt and the violation of social norms. This means, the point of casual arguments is to convict the other person of moral transgressions as defined by social norms. The legal burden of “beyond a reasonableContinue reading “NPCs frame truth into strawmen, whataboutism to do about it”
NPC-is-an-action-verb
“The mind is not reducible to the physical-brain. The mind is universal-consciousness. The mind is universal-creativity. And our physical-brain acts only as a filter to that infinite-mind.” Sounds cool. But we are going to be talking about a much less cool way our brain acts as a reducing-valve. Namely: the way that our brain reducesContinue reading “NPC-is-an-action-verb”
NPCs only exist within games
Long ago when I was a young wage cuck a group of us used to work late and would often play football in the office to decompress (Terry Tate Office Linebacker, Football in the Office). Now this was behavior was certainly explained by the fact that we were young guys recently out of college withContinue reading “NPCs only exist within games”
NPCs outsource their beliefs to their tribe / society
Homosexual relationships and marriage are now widely accepted, I mean come on “it’s the current year.” In the year 2000 only 20% of conservatives supported gay marriage, 20 years later 50% of conservatives support gay marriage. That’s quite a change. And again, it points to a flaw in the NPC model where people rarely changeContinue reading “NPCs outsource their beliefs to their tribe / society”