Specialness

Category: Specialness

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1. Connections between specialness and other concepts
   1. Specialness (as with variance) is contextual.
   2. Is specialness just outlierhood / high variance / the same as these others, or should we take its discreteness (I either am special or are not) seriously?
2. Things to do with specialness
   1. Feel special
   2. Create something special
   3. Be treated as special
3. Counterfactual Value
   1. Non-redundancy
   2. Fungibility
   3. Marginality
4. Countervailing
   1. Belonging to a tribe, to a collective

Perhaps all we want is the feeling of it rather than the thing itself. Tradeoff: Fitting in / Belonging vs. Specialness

Everything you experience you experience from your perspective (and so you’re genuinely special from your perspective, the only experiencing thing

Needing to make specialness real, specialness in life and in reality.

Information maximization Non-redundancy Fungibility

Lulie’s frame:

1. Compared to other people
   1. If you were the last person left on earth, could you still be special or not special

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