Comment by hoppp
25 days ago
I don't think this is all psychosis but more like extreme groupthink.
For people who are considered neurotypical, social coherence often overwrites reality. Its a mechanism for achieving consensus withing groups while spending the least amount of brain compute energy. Same goes for social metainfo tagged messages, they are more likely to influence reality perception, subconsciously. E.G: If a rich guy says you should be hyped the people who wanna get rich will feel hyped and emotional contagion can spread between people who belong to the same "tribe"
It's very visible for us atypical folk who can't participate well in groupthink at all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux
I guess at a company of seven, if two people are making the executive decisions and the two people are drinking the same AI kool-aid and the other five people are dutifully following these executive decisions, the whole company can be considered to be under this condition.
I just thought that instead of psychosis it's just regular groupthink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
Maybe the difference would be the level of absurdity that's accepted
I would add to this that there's actually a social function to "costly" beliefs, which is that they signal allegiance to the in-group.
A practice (or a fashion) has more social value to the degree that it is absurd, because it signals the person is able and willing to align with the group at personal cost.
This is easiest to see in some insular religious communities.
Normie culture is quite similar: a vast complex of ever-shifting shibboleths which signal, "I'm one of you. You can trust me."
It signals the person is able and willing to follow the rules, to make themselves predictable, easier to understand and cooperate with.
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