After a discussion with a friend, I’m not so sure anymore. Kids enmesh themselves in your OODA loop and I don’t view them as evil. People want to be wanted in romance and in some sense that’s trying to become a part of other’s OODA loops and I don’t view that as evil. Though in the former case, you want them to eventually leave your loop. And in the latter, I hope, lovers’ want their partners’ to become stronger.
I think there’s still something there, but it isn’t as solid a principle as I initially thought.
Yeah, maybe it’s less the OODA loop involvement and more that “bad things” lead to a kind of activated nervous system that predisposes us to reactive behavior (“react” as opposed to “reflect/respond”).
To me, the bad loops are more “stimulus → react without thinking” than “observe, orient, decide, act”. You end up hijacked by your reactive nervous system.
I think I know what you mean. Like the state people fall into when scrolling through TikTok or gambling on slot machines or so forth. I think the term is called “dark flow” in psychology. I feel like that’s just one facet of what you’re pointing out though. Some memes or ideologies can mind-kill you, and I think they should kind-of count as “maximizing engagement”.
“Stimulus->react without thinking” has potential, but I’m not sure where to go from here with it.
After a discussion with a friend, I’m not so sure anymore. Kids enmesh themselves in your OODA loop and I don’t view them as evil. People want to be wanted in romance and in some sense that’s trying to become a part of other’s OODA loops and I don’t view that as evil. Though in the former case, you want them to eventually leave your loop. And in the latter, I hope, lovers’ want their partners’ to become stronger.
I think there’s still something there, but it isn’t as solid a principle as I initially thought.
Yeah, maybe it’s less the OODA loop involvement and more that “bad things” lead to a kind of activated nervous system that predisposes us to reactive behavior (“react” as opposed to “reflect/respond”).
To me, the bad loops are more “stimulus → react without thinking” than “observe, orient, decide, act”. You end up hijacked by your reactive nervous system.
I think I know what you mean. Like the state people fall into when scrolling through TikTok or gambling on slot machines or so forth. I think the term is called “dark flow” in psychology. I feel like that’s just one facet of what you’re pointing out though. Some memes or ideologies can mind-kill you, and I think they should kind-of count as “maximizing engagement”.
“Stimulus->react without thinking” has potential, but I’m not sure where to go from here with it.