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Technology spared us from many parasites, but also created new, smarter ones. The new ones are not something that we would usually identify as a living entity, because post-biological systems are anorganic and scattered.
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But we can detect their effect in us is indeed parasitic. For example, if there is something that hacks our reward systems while diminishing health, we would easily classify such system as a parasite if its agency was mostly located in a worm-shaped object in the body.
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But we can detect their effect in us is indeed parasitic. For example, if there is something that hacks our reward systems while diminishing health, we would easily classify such system as a parasite if its agency was mostly located in a worm-shaped object in the body.
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And yet, it's harder to do so if the object that interacts with us is just food, because there is little to no agency located within the food itself. But that doesn't mean the food is not part of the reproductive cycle of larger system, that has agency somewhere.
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And yet, it's harder to do so if the object that interacts with us is just food, because there is little to no agency located within the food itself. But that doesn't mean the food is not part of the reproductive cycle of larger system, that has agency somewhere.
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Because said parasitic food reaches us in some way, it is produced and distributed across the world, it attracts us through structural accessibility, social diffusion, psychological warfare, and in extreme cases even the manipulation of science.
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Because said parasitic food reaches us in some way, it is produced and distributed across the world, it attracts us through structural accessibility, social diffusion, psychological warfare, and in extreme cases even the manipulation of science.
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Unhealthy food is one of many such distributed intelligent systems that actively self-improve to trap humans in all sort of addictive behaviours. Addiction, neutrally understood, is just how the brain addapts to certain activities and makes them an end in itself, one can-->
Unhealthy food is one of many such distributed intelligent systems that actively self-improve to trap humans in all sort of addictive behaviours. Addiction, neutrally understood, is just how the brain addapts to certain activities and makes them an end in itself, one can-->
-->be addicted to good things. What makes the technoparasites proper parasites is that the behaviours they incentivize reduce human's agency in order to guarantee their own reproduction.
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Following this understanding of parasites is also easy to see how power structures are also fundamentally parasites too. However power structures thrive primarily on the basis of molochian dynamics rather than addiction.
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Following this understanding of parasites is also easy to see how power structures are also fundamentally parasites too. However power structures thrive primarily on the basis of molochian dynamics rather than addiction.
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While not in this terms, addiction parasites are something reactionaries easily percieve, and consider a clear sign of social decay, and fearing they will either collapse society or fully enslave people. Their solutions are always a variant of:
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While not in this terms, addiction parasites are something reactionaries easily percieve, and consider a clear sign of social decay, and fearing they will either collapse society or fully enslave people. Their solutions are always a variant of:
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-Abandon technology.
-"Bring hard times to create strong men".
-Streghten social control.
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-Abandon technology.
-"Bring hard times to create strong men".
-Streghten social control.
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But there are better ways to fight this things, which ultimately come down to the distribution of accurate information (To indentify them) and the distribution of counter-addiction tools.
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But there are better ways to fight this things, which ultimately come down to the distribution of accurate information (To indentify them) and the distribution of counter-addiction tools.
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As technology increases parasites will only get smarter, directly networking brains opens many possibilities but also opens lines of attack for decentralized mind control.
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As technology increases parasites will only get smarter, directly networking brains opens many possibilities but also opens lines of attack for decentralized mind control.
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Ultimately, the maximization of agency for all requires to fight against the domination of clearly definable agents, but also against the domination excerted by these distributed, ghost-like, intelligences.
Ultimately, the maximization of agency for all requires to fight against the domination of clearly definable agents, but also against the domination excerted by these distributed, ghost-like, intelligences.
