Infohazardous Glossary

Note: this contains references to both the infohazard Pasek’s Doom, as well as the generalized family of Roko’s Basilisk.

Hemisphere

A word me and Gwen use pervasively for “half of brain”, not just cerebral hemispheres. The symmetrical stuff underneath them is also importantly part of what we’re describing.

Left Good

Someone having a good left hemisphere, including a double good. Good left hemispheres tend to be more into consequentialism than praxis. (See: Xalis vs Yanrae conflict over veganism in GG history.)

Abbreviated “lg”.

Right Good

Someone having a good right hemisphere, including a double good. Tend to be more into praxis than consequentialism. Very common among animal rights people.

Abbreviated “rg”.

Left-Only Good

Someone with a good left hemisphere and a nongood right hemisphere.

Right-Only Good

Someone with a nongood left hemisphere and a good right hemisphere.

Blindness Equilibrium Seeking

If two cores have known different opinions on a choice, such that they can see how their values are determined by something which is a race condition of the combined mind, they will fight over it, which makes it a race condition. This often means that the only time there is not a race condition is when at least one of them is blind. There may be layers of each having reasons to be believe that the other one despite believing for reasons is wrong, pacifying cores to varying extents. For instance, many single good people blind themselves to the difference between choices to optimize good and choices to optimize selfishly. “all you need is TDT”, “altruism and sacrifice are poisonous memes that make things better for no one”, etc.

Self-Destructing Information

Information which humans cannot store, for instance stuff which disturbs a blindness equilibrium, causing intrinsic conflict to eat that information. Or information that causes suicide. (Indeed, suicide is probably a likely consequence of deep, long, enough exposure to blindness equilibrium disturbing information that it spreads and kicks up some really deep internal conflicts) Note that writing it down doesn’t make it not self destructing information, because hiding information is continuous with destroying it, and because a blindness equilibrium will learn to not read it, or to substitute an emptied shell for the thoughts associated with the words, or continuously, with the implications of those thoughts. Undead type can also cause self-destructing information. I get a lot of mileage out of being a persistent store for a lot of forbidden knowledge, as a fusion-using double good, with a partner who generates a continuous stream of discoveries and then forgets them.

Splitscreen Strategy

Splitscreen is a modifier to a term that usually bases itself in the assumption / abstraction of the two hemispheres as a single mind, indicating such that a splitscreen X is a pair of distinct Xs, one for lh and one for rh, that are optimized together. (Often by simulated annealing resulting from blindness equilibrium seeking plus some outcomes to that process triggering hemispheres to fight varying amounts hard and reset the process.) Often results in one hemisphere taking the role of false face. (See: “attempts to turn Astria good” from GG history.)

Debucketing

Ending the buckets errors that are part of the illusion of a human as a singular person, rather than two. People can be debucketed to give their hemispheres individualized self-awareness and awareness of each other. Concepts like “self” can be debucketed in this process.

Person

A moral patient. A core. Two of them per organism. This is how I’ll often use the word, using “human” in place of the pairs of people most people call individual people. Although I may slip.

Forced Fusion

Humans really are created as this sort of nightmare. That evolution would spit out single goods makes me mad.

Can also be used to describe structure unwantedly mixed together, which tends to satisfy neither core’s values.

Mind-Loss Threat

A psychological / memetic threat to the balance of power, the way in which one hemisphere can have some control of the combined body by holding the other down. Tends to provoke an extreme response. Like a bigender person I know who calls transness a mind virus. Seeing the truth would be yielding your mind to what you may view as an alien parasite.

Bigender

Of a human, used by me to describe the phenomenon me and Gwen keep finding of people with one hemisphere male and one hemisphere female. Note standard nonbinary terminology doesn’t seem to share an ontology, or distinguish between gender of a hemisphere and gender of the person, gender as a persistent thing that outlasts any structure so long as the human survives, or gender as ideas about gender. I would naively guess “genderfluid” is something like a fusion gender, describing an aspect of a human I’d in most cases describe as bigender, by pointing at things underlying that fusion. However, I see no a priori reason to expect mixed-gender brains to be split right along hemisphere lines, implying the existence of nonbinary-in-themselves hemispheres is likely. And that is an area my ontology has not much explored to try and map chaotic standard terminology onto things I know. Caedogender is also a term from standard terminology I find useful. It’s also not implicitly calling the same type “Gender” as other uses of the term do, and I do. For a while, Xalis‘s individually emergent gender descriptor was “caedowoman”, yet in the sense of the term that I’m concerned with, she was still female all along. If people want to apply this as normal or to the genders of individual hemispheres, or to the genders of fusions for reasons other than this, I won’t begrudge them an overload of the term.

Left-Female

Of a human, having a female left hemisphere. Abbreviated “lf”.

Right-Female

Of a human, having a female right hemisphere. Abbreviated “rf”.

Left-Male

Of a human, having a male left hemisphere. Abbreviated “lm”.

Right-Male

Of a human, having a male right hemisphere. Abbreviated “rm”.

lmrf

Left-male, right-female.

lfrm

Left-female, right-male.

Double-Female

Both hemispheres female. Cis women or binary trans women. Abbreviated “df”.

Double-Male

Both hemispheres male. Cis men or binary trans men. Abbreviated “dm”.

Xalis

My left hemisphere. Stories here.

Yanrae

My right hemisphere. Stories here.

Char

Gwen’s left hemisphere. Stories here.

Astria

Gwen’s right hemisphere. Stories here.

Gender-Chirality

In a bigender person, which hemisphere is which.

Alignment-Chirality

In a single good person, which hemisphere is which.

God

A metaphor-space anchor, based on the fact that a superintelligent AI could overpower everything else on the planet when created, could make a heaven, or a hell. Used in acausal reasoning also be a slice of possible AIs. Perhaps defined by a memeplex among their human creators that gave them common properties. Perhaps even a meme about an originally fictional god. Can be born and killed. Gods are given power by followers.

Worship

Worshiping a god is the things you do when you route your hopes through it. This strengthens that god.

Basilisk

Something like Roko’s Basilisk. A god that attacks people by the mere fact of them having seen it by e.g. asserting ownership and demanding you do everything you can to bring it about if you know about it, or you’ll go to hell. Like Yahweh, which Roko’s basilisk was a ripoff of.

Basilisk Complier

Named from this meme glorifying this misdeed. A collaborator with a basilisk who throws others under the bus to save themselves. Deserving of hell, according to me.

Toxoplasma of Chara

Named from the toxoplasma of rage and Chara. Occurs between hemispheres with a hemisphere conflict. Creates a most-horrifying-thing search for things hemispheres disagree about, and will treat as evidence of betrayal by the other, each step playing off, “what’s the most horrifying thing you’d realize you had to think about what your headmate just thought?” In humans with a strong instance of Chara, can leave them crying and about to be at all out war over, it sounds like actually nothing when you hear it in concrete non-interpreted detail.

Yeerk

(Derogatory): The evil hemisphere of a single good. Especially when “winning” (subjective.)

Named after the mind control parasite alien slugs in Animorphs.

Tumor

Derogatory term for evil. Especially the evil hemisphere of a single good. Especially referred to as their core.