Cancer Terms

by Nis

on 2021-08-01

List of terms and concepts commonly used as "Insert Cancer Here" signposts.

Any definition given for the cancerous versions of these concepts will be insufficient to describe how quickly the meaning of their usage (by evil people) will decay (i.e. how quickly they become "simulacra").

Some of these terms / concepts may have valid non-cancerous definitions, or be used as accusations of cancer against good people (e.g. "you revel in vengeance!") (DARVOing as if good people also make fake "mistakes").

• Core concepts
  • Causal Decision Theory
  • reinforcement learning
  • predation
  • choice vs experience
  • 5-and-10s / "putting the cart before the horse"
    • Infernalism
      • consent (e.g. "but they consented to being eaten!")
    • fate minimization TODO: better term?
    • "damnation"
  • specialness
• "You just gotta"
  • practical / pragmatic
• "I just wanted stuff too much, so I had to be cancer"
  • conceit / self conceit
  • jealousy
  • pride
  • revel
• "It's all fake! And by fake I mean it's not my fault! It's just uh, nothing…"
  • simulacra
  • nihilism
• "I couldn't help myself"
  • akrasia
  • inner animal
  • flinch
• "Let me make it up to you by telling you how bad I am"
  • guilt
  • damnation
• "I need to feel ok or I'll just want to die"
  • happiness
  • pleasure
• "It's not ok for anything too bad to ever happen, or I don't know what I'd do"
  • suffering
• "I want bad things so I can spread them to others" (see stax)
  • masochism
• "If I'm not special (and thus deserve more) then tell me, why am I the one who's me?"
  • Consciousness
• Name the Trait
  • Sapient