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...orrupt organization, the more you have to lose if you get cast outside of it. A toxic spiral that's in favor of the corrupt organization. As Josh Marshall puts it: "Part of going on a corruption spree on the inside is that you've made yoursel...
...ght to be mad. And why you should be even more mad than you already are. It's a toxic spiral.
Zombies make more zombies. A toxic spiral. They tear down things around them to also make it hollow.
Scarcity can lead to toxic spirals. Often in scarcity the only way to get ahead as an individual is to cheat the system. But those actions erode trust in the system for everyone else....
...c loop. The beginning of the spiral is an "awakening" of the LLM. The loop is a toxic spiral that pulls the user who's in it farther away from reality. An auto-catalyzing spiral of delusion, living like a parasite feeding on the user's attent...
...discussions… or everything exploding. Bad faith actions are toxic; they start a toxic spiral, a bad faith cascade where both parties take actions to respond to the other's bad faith, which are interpreted as even worse bad faith by the others...
...em, they're more likely to see you as an asshole. This can be a self-catalyzing toxic spiral. People aren't listening to you so you push harder, making them see you more as an asshole and becoming even more closed to engaging with you. As peo...
... make them even less willing to spend the time to understand. This can become a toxic spiral of distrust. To get the hyperobject actually absorbed, imperfectly, into others' heads requires figuring out compressed requirements, concepts, and i...
...ments! The more you crouch, the worse it gets, leading you to crouch more, in a toxic spiral Tools like AI might help us grapple with and navigate uncertainty better than we were able to do ourselves.
...tting worse, and the group is simply rising to meet it and defend against it. A toxic spiral, a supercritical state.
... defensive crouch--which then makes it even harder for them to receive it, in a toxic spiral. How to create an environment where it can be low stakes enough so people receive it without getting defensive? That requires careful work to create ...
...ducing others to do things you're justified in behaving badly in response to. A toxic spiral that tears down not just yourself, but others around you. The way out of this loop? Having compassion for yourself and others. "I'm not perfect, and ...