Reflexivity

I got this term from Nosilverv’s substack post “Reflexivity — Part 1” (it’s not his term but he tweets about it a bunch)
- 👆 just read this!!! It’s great, clear and concise
A closely related term is hyperstitioning
- This is a great term that displays both - Defender’s “I started writing a book”
- Tasshin has a post where he sets up a hyperstition
- Really, it’s very close to manifesting innit

From Nosilverv’s post

Elon isn’t trying to predict the future—he’s far too busy building it. A classic entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs understand that part of building the future is aligning everyone’s maps, making sure we’re all rowing in the same direction, that we all think the future looks the same way and thus end up building it the way we collectively imagined it. By presenting something as inevitable, as what will necessarily come to pass, we try to fix the future into place.

That is, Elon Musk is functionally acting the way the reflexive view above describes politicians as acting. He’s not making a prediction because he thinks it’s gonna happen, he’s making a """"prediction"""" to make it happen.

Elon understands that the success of his ventures ultimately depends on shifting common belief his way and, thus, he won’t ever make a public prediction_._ He’ll only ever make private predictions. In public he’ll exclusively share what cybernetic occultists call hyperstitions: beliefs or ideas that, through their very existence and spread, bring themself about.

👆 you’re not outside the system, you’re embedded in it. You’re not outside of your reality, you’re hallucinating it. Your brain is in a pitch black cave, and what you think you see by peering out of your eyes is actually just neurons firing. This is why psychedelics make you see crazy shit innit, you’re fucking with your neuronal weightings
“Once you start thinking reflexively, a lot of puzzle pieces start sliding into place.”

Appendix

Defender re: how you’re a cell in the organism and the rest of the organism of course can respond to you
- 👆 https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1944509871220830490
- Literally exactly the thing of “you’re not outside the system looking in, you’re embedded in it!!” (this is also very Heideggerian now I think about it)
- Literally this:

Reflexivity is part of what makes twitter/tpot so amazing

How cool it is to have people like Defender and Guy reply to me, sometimes within minutes, and Romeo Stevens with his reading list, etc. And Rich Bartlett etc! The universe is so responsive dude