I don't think it has to be the extreme case of self-referential fitness.   
Q-Anon provides a scaffolding such that the landscape is "software defined".   
It's not like a rabbit found some food to eat, and the food was growing due to 
favorable conditions on that hilltop.   The hill was there because some dorks 
on Facebook decided to make a hill there.   Anyway, I see what you mean by 
"flattening" if you really think that individuals and fitness are one and the 
same.   The possibility of "software defined" hills is what I would prohibit, 
e.g. World War Z.

https://youtu.be/uU0DNCV22dU?t=92

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No, I thought I made it quite clear that I'm asserting the disease is our 
identification of individuals with the peaks (which is why I posted the Great 
Man article). Canceling Kevin Spacey isn't at all about Kevin Spacey. It's 
about the space of celebrity actors in movies. Canceling Nutt isn't about Nutt. 
It's about the consolidation of Big Science.

The problem exhibited by Bret Weinstein's shoulder chip is that Bret thinks his 
canceling was about *him*. It had nothing to do with him. It has to do with the 
homogeneity of the landscape.

The same argument can be leveled against Jon's point. Totalitarianism is not an 
inevitable consequence of our high connectivity because as connectivity 
approaches infinity, the "individual" dissolves and collections of individuals 
become the functional unit. Continuing to hold individuals as first order 
objects is the disease.

On 3/5/21 10:29 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> It is confusing because you are taking about individuals as peaks, but it is 
> the landscape that has the peaks.   One could flood the space to move the 
> individuals around, or at least to free up the resources they are using by 
> drowning them. 


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