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[–] 5 pts

For most of my life I did not believe projection was a thing. I always thought if we knew about it then anyone that was lying could adjust for that and lie better.

And then you see videos like these over and over and over again. When they do these, they aren't telling you what you should do, they are telling you what they have / are / will do to you.

The craziest part is they aren't even cognitively aware that they are projecting.

It is so weird to be out of the matrix watching the NPCs run their behaviour scripts.

[–] 1 pt

The craziest part is they aren't even cognitively aware

Full stop. These people are real, actual, NPCs. In old-school philosophical terms, they really are existing philosophical zombies. That's what's so crazy about it all.

They are literally programmed from birth to run these scripts, and like any script, they can contain errors. One error is their projection. Being used as a bot can sometimes have them spouting things that they do as well.

Projection happens because of simulation. In order to predict the behavior of others we simulate it on our own mind. This works pretty well for the most part since human brains are very similar. Projection happens when the biases of the one doing the simulation creep in. It is not possible to do the simulation without also projecting.