Actual humans are afraid of being considered obnoxious, stupid or antisocial. Karma loss is just an indication that perception may be heading in that direction.
This is how lost purposes form. Once you’ve figured out that karma loss is a sign of something bad, you start avoiding it even when it’s not a sign of that bad thing.
Wait actual humans are afraid of losing karma?
...i dont even
Actual humans are afraid of being considered obnoxious, stupid or antisocial. Karma loss is just an indication that perception may be heading in that direction.
Attempts to avoid karma loss by procedural hacks are a stronger indication...
This is how lost purposes form. Once you’ve figured out that karma loss is a sign of something bad, you start avoiding it even when it’s not a sign of that bad thing.
Maybe wedrifid is taking that into account and renormalizing. It’s hard to tell.
Of something different.
Of people assigning excessive weight to very small changes in signaling?
#noshitsherlock
Yes.
I don’t think it’s any weirder than viewing losing karma as an entertaining game.