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| 2025-11-18 18:37:54 UTC
Cities as model collapse engines for humans
StJohn Piano
Brains (or brain regions) undergo model collapse just like AI systems.
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Urban people often behave as if they’re retarded. Socially (they’ve never been punched in the face), Geospatially (they have no idea how to navigate by the sun or shadows), Culturally (without some pop-fiction touchstone, culture doesn’t exist), etc. They’re entirely bound to a world of artificial ideas: human-produced data, and unable to accurately model from first principles anything outside their extremely limited sphere of artificial experience.
The bugman’s neurological model of reality is divorced from reality. They hallucinate truths that make no sense, and they delude themselves into provably false ideas, and violently attack anyone with a model of reality more accurate than their own.
They don’t understand violence, hunger, or (real) social organization because they’ve never encountered those things.
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