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"The Dead Internet Theory" | Self Bias And Perception Issue

Critique regarding the doom and gloom of the internet; and the suggestion that humanity is already lost with respect to self perception and reality.

By Scott CatheryPublished 6 months ago 2 min read
Pain | Alan Watts

1. You are an organism subject to object permanence. You exist in the world and on this world under the heavens and that is the extent of it.

2. Stimuli (the world and its boundary) is not static, and it is the flux that drives autonomic response as perception. If that process become maladaptive, or when self perception changes due to dissociation, insomnia or dream state, it may affect subjective framing; but the "man" is still under the heavens, and that is why you don't wake up in someone else's body.

3. The core of the "dead internet theorem" or "self bias and perception issue" is simply dissonance driven by generations of short form video content that is polarised in nature, rapid loading between frames at up to 1.2 seconds per url asset and a global client pool of users that have devices in a 16:9 format that is turned vertically.

4. Over the last decade as the industry has adopted these standards, the neurology of vision becomes constrained, conditioned and lastly, when the user is activated, progrom ensues.

5. Having spent passive and direct time pressing meta llama and open ai (4o, free) and most recently grok - I am certain that we are in for a good run.

The resilience of safety frameworks are already demonstrable in today's client side systems, where pattern recognition are the modus operandi; meaning because we have taught tolerances and tokenisation segments to form part of pattern recognition, they will be generationally supportive of design goals, to be safe and effective for humanity.

6. Neurology and sensitisation are core facets of the dead internet theorem and recovery for society starts with scientific method, literacy, paying attention and perusing or obtaining a ventral and prosody state.

7. 3rd party application developers would do well do ensure design language and delivery frameworks are supportive of the human experience instead of driving us into trigger states. The damage has been a decade in the making, but with concetrated efforts it won't take as long to turn communities and cohorts around.

Final Remark: If your'e on these platforms or in a cohort and your feelings get too big, simply take a break. You deserve this much.

Cathery | I am an independent Actor, Writer, Voiceover and have aspirations in systems architecture. My opinions are my own, and are not endorsed by any brands that I mention in my written work. Thank you for stopping by my corner of the internet. More to come.

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About the Creator

Scott Cathery

Actor | Writer | Voiceover | Systems Design

I enjoy writing from the hip in planned segments. Sometimes I make a habit of over correcting myself. Typing makes it easier to output closer to the rate I can think at. #survivor #findingharmony

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