Post #1684219

2026-04-22 00:55 UTC

Are you dart? Your choice of only lowercase letters to make this type of argument makes me think you are dart from Reddit. The use of a word like confabulations almost definitively confirms it, like that time I got one up on Bkob, whoever tf that is.

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@Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-22 02:49

i don't even know if i'm supposed to be offended. what is a "dart?" i tried searching on reddit and only found the sport and "dallas area rapid transit." also why is my lifelong vendetta against capitalization while on keyboard putting me into some kind of niche group? and i talk about confabulations because i've got that weird intense interest in complex systems. confabulation is really important, especially in psychology, because a lot of the time we are making our best guess when making sense of our more basal ['surprise' reactions to prediction error.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle) while maintaining some sort of allostasis/non-equilibrium-steady-state. in english, we are largely just winging it and finding what works, and then socially confirming it. which brings you to social sciences and epistemology, as "social constructs" are also confabulated in similar ways. we all out here sharing the most simple "sense making" map/heuristic via the most memetic/simple stories that we can socially confirm into our lived reality. the "simplified" comes from that 'free energy principle' thing i linked, which in addition to the surprisal systems, deals with finding the simplest useful map (but no simpler, that's how you overfit/overspecialize.) to save energy well enough to keep our general amalgam of patterns from dissolving. for us that is "surviving and thriving." big topic, but i'll avoid writing an essay to describe it all, but i recommend looking into that general area of study. this larger area of study really helps when framing socio-political topics, so i wish more people would confabulate a shared lifestyle that isn't immune to actively engaging with these concepts, despite taking a fair amount of energy, while we're all being energy starved by our existing system that is really good at adapting to and maximally exploiting our available energy. which is all to say, why i hope your association is of a random group you thought was a neat wild catch, and not some negative association for easy energy saving thought termination for the topic at hand. :/

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