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Cringe meets theory of mind

Hello this is dentropy, and I am here to Cringe my way to self actualization. We all have an intuition for what cringe is but here is a nice definition we can overanalyze. When someone acts in an embarrassing and awkward fashion, cringe makes you feel extremely ashamed and/or embarrassed. Let's quickly experience some cringe by looking at the top posts on reddit's r/cringetopia

  1. $4k rent : Cringetopia !img
  2. CuLTuRaL ApPrOpRiAtIoN : Cringetopia CuLTuRaL ApPrOpRiAtIoN : Cringetopia
  3. He's also 1 million times more useful than she'll ever be. : Cringetopia He's also 1 million times more useful than she'll ever be. : Cringetopia

Now, what do all these situations have in common?

  1. It starts with a individual projecting their opinions of the world out into the world
  2. Same individual fails to take into account theory of mind when generating said options
  3. Quick efficient feedback
  4. (Optional) Upgrade views of the world

I admire how these cringe lords are still capable of coming to action and not over thinking what they are doing.

I despise an assumed shape of the individuals ego making these posts.

I desire the efficient feedback loop between each hypothesis and result which is on display in each of these posts.

Now let's normalize these meme vectors with the Theory of Mind

Examples of Meme Vectors include those self contained posts from reddit above that provide a series of feeling and tell a story. What assumptions am I making about my audience? Does the word normalize apply to the phrase "meme vectors" the way I think it does? Am I saying meme vector just to seem smart or does it actually bring novel meaning to this rant? Maybe I am giving too many fucks.

So, Theory of Mind. What is this thing? "Theory of mind refers to the capacity to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them." Understand other people.... If I understood another person and understand me wouldn't that make us a single entity? There seems to be an information asymmetry requirement here. For example, is it actually possible to state what you are thinking or are our thoughts so nuanced we are always making an approximation? There is always the capacity to overthink what someone said. Just like society our minds are filled with and endless stream of contradictions. We need to act in the world to sort out these contradictions therefore we are a process that is always approximating.... something. What are we approximating.... I think this is where Plato's forms come in. Hmmm Plato's forms. Those things are not constant are they... they change over time. The forms are a map for the territory of reality and the territory is always changing. We can cringe at the present but we can't cringe at the future.

We only study the past to gain power in the present to shape the future. We only suffer because we have selves. Okay audience, I am going to attempt to take out the my "self" put it on an a shelf so we can collectively cringe at it. As I said at Complexity Weekend I declare war on information asymmetry. IDK what I am doing yet so let's cringe through the next post posts.Self Actualization.Learning to sail the memes.

Examples some people perceive as cringe