dialectical storytelling as archetype mapping
i didn't mean to explain it originally, but here's the context for this in medias res post: this blog was born out of a night spent on edible lvl highs; i had the munchies for creative expression. this post was written that night.
what this substack will mostly be about is my predictive brain theory, which has been boiling in my head for a while. it encompasses depth psychology, neuroscience, and computational learning and should give an interpretation to psychic experiences with predictions and solutions to neurotic states of mind. i’m just a jungian neuroeng; my ideas come from places that i’m too ignorant to fully uncover. regardless, i see their value in their beauty, humor and occasional practical utility.
the following post mostly describes an application to the ~predictive archetypes brain theory - the theory doesn't have a name yet, don't care.
psychometer users by making them write stories. give them a subject to write a fairy tale, a story on, or just recall a known story. then have llm characterize archetypes present in the story, how the user portrays them to shed lights on repressed, unknown, biased aspects of the personal archetypes.
user can prompt story style, like goth or dinosaur apocalypse.
generate images of some situation involving archetypes of interest that in active learning fashion we cover the space of or set of archetypes, so we can characterize what the user's relationship to kinds of people are.
when exploring subjective archetypes: build a tree of archetypes starting from child -> mother -> (princess, whore), father -> (hero, king, ...); expand, recursively on more and more detailed archetypes and symbols.
describe the story setup to the user that the user builds on. a situation is described, e.g. a wednesday shooting in a church and the user has to choose who gets to be shot in the story and why. the llm can continue from there and drive a story in alternation with the user.
the ai should show sides of an archetype and its uses in life, either its dark or bright side, depending on which aspect is seemingly repressed/biased in the subject.
we visualize everything, user gets to create and watch a story. while getting psychologically analyzed the shit out of.
most cracked, dopamine milking way to do this is by creating a fast paced story building conversation with the ai. you alternate with the llm, building the story linearly or nonlinearly, but in sequence. you can give comments to the ai like [stan falls in love with handy], marking comments as separate from the story, while the llm can also break the fourth wall saying some shit like "stan ended his realtionship with his chief addiction [sorry i couldn't let him fall like that :( ] <eos nig>"
we use the idea that wrong predictions in social situations, by failed, biased understanding of certain archetypes (clusters of people), is the sole source of our suffering. we developed large part of the psyche to predict behavior of other people well, because of the dominating complexity of interpersonal relations.
the users here predict the actions of their archetype projections, the bias of which can be then best uncovered.
as we map the subjective archetype constellations, the llm keeps giving subtle nodges to the biased characters actions and motives to show the user how such people may act and why, driving understanding, centering the bias.
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