Sunday morning meditation.
Recent trauma from fool exposure. Taking a break.
Observing myself. Preemptive stances are being projected too much. As foolish as people are expected to be, lowering expectations even further seems reasonable, as that results in preemptive disengagement.
Let's use cold water as an analogy for folly. Let's add the notion that cold water can be preemptively interpreted as trauma. However the final interpretation of the presentation of cold water may not be as preempted. One then has three forms to consider :
1. actively engage with cold water, with an expectation of trauma, having hedged resources in advance to accommodate the anticipated trauma ; some might call this the begrudging approach ; it is emotionally ( cognitively ) expensive ; "fight" mode, in the F-model
2. actively avoid engaging with cold water, with an expectation of avoiding trauma, without having hedged resources in advance to accommodate the avoided trauma ; some might call this the lazy approach ; it is emotionally ( cognitively ) cheaper than 1 ; "flight, or freeze" mode, in the F-model
3. actively engage with cold water, with an expectation of more pleasure than trauma, having hedged ( minimal ) resources in advance to accommodate the anticipated trauma, and furthermore having factored ( some ) anticipated pleasure into the resource pool for growth / investment ; some might call this the opportunistic approach ; it is emotionally ( cognitive ) net profitable ; "feed, fuck, or flourish" mode, in the F-model
So, some discuss these emotional mechanics as "a law of attraction", "positive thinking", "a gracious approach", "a premise of gratitude", etc.
While it's useful for operational tuning ... I think in 2024 it bears discussing that this is the sort of thing you need to program into machines to understand, if you want machines to understand most foolish humans.
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