Low agency in a 2 minute video: Derren Brown creates a compliance test He places 3 actors into a room The actors stand up and sit down when the bell rings He then introduces real people into the room It's fascinating AND terrifying how many people blindly copy the... other people -- simply because. Mimetic low agency OS takes over. You can see from the initial look on their faces that they know it's not right -- but they copy and paste the room -- because they don't want to stand out. Some thoughts: 1. Look at the guys face at 0.50 It's the emperors new clothes moment He can see everyone is naked But he feels naked by not going along with the tribe 2. We need a word for that moment at 0.50 Is there a good english word for that moment? It's the feeling of looking wrong socially being more important than being wrong in reality. The first step to identifying that moment is having a word 3. The blind spot trap What is fascinating about this video is that nobody watches this, including myself, thinks they would do this But the odds are, that's not true... That blind spot is part of the trap. What a video.show more

This was taken from my research into high agency The full thing will drop soon on --> Get a link as soon as it's out.

Flash Shelton, an anti-squatting activist, reveals how squatters in California exploit tenant laws, blurring the lines between tenant rights and unlawful occupation. He shares strategies for dealing with squatters and the challenges homeowners face in reclaiming their properties.

This is a low stake situation in which someone simply assumes that if everyone does an action he/she must be the one who missed the info. Here the action has no cost to the self, it reflect a simple prosocial behavior rather than some worrisome low sense of agency

Replicating patterns is perfectly fine. Replicating patterns when it is counter to a goal is when issues arise. Breaking those patterns, when it is a goal you actually care about, is high agency. Lack of a meaningful goal, we call mimicking patterns culture.

The 2020-2022 Panic Era in 2 minutes

I'd probably assume there had been some instruction that I'd missed.

Fascinating. Robert Cialdini had great studies like what's playing out here, easy to reproduce if you have enough participants.

This facial expression is representing knowing submission to illogical ridiculousness.

If one is a rare non-lemming, one can observe this behavior constantly. Laughter evoking fake laughter, applause, etc.

You don’t need a new word. Robert Cialdini wrote a whole book on Influence that examines the research and real world examples of influenced behavior. This is a combination of Social Proof and Unity.

Isn't there a selection bias? What is the probability of a high-agency person learning about and even more so deciding to participate in these fake studies?