Holy Grail of Impact:
Legends hold that the Grail had the power to heal all wounds, deliver eternal youth and grant everlasting happiness.
We believe this grail exists, not as a cup in the physical world, but as a container for spreading the most impactful and positive vibes there are.
If the container for these vibes is made correctly one can assume it's effect would eventually reach most of the people on earth, forever changing our collective timeline in a positive direction.
This article is a study of the most effective vibes out there, and ways we can use them.
Before we define how a vibe can be effective, let us first define what a vibe is.
Vibes refer to the emotions felt from certain experiences. For example, right now you are experiencing the downloading of the information on this page through your eyes, recorded as decoded as information, which on a physical level is causing hundreds of trillions of your neurons to fire in order to process and filter it.
This experience, as a whole, can be summarized as having a vibe. In scientific circle they call this qualia.
Every vibe changes the way your brain state reconfigures itself, partially based on the information embedded in the environment and, partially based on your surroundings, your prior mood, genetic dispositions, hunger levels, and on and on.
The way information is presented changes how our brains consciously and subconsciously process it. Often referred to as our identity.
When was the last time you read something that changed your outlook on life? When that happens, even on a small scale your entire life path is permanently altered. The level of alteration in a positive direction is the idea behind effective vibes. An ineffective vibe would be non-transformational and have no impact on future actions you take. It's important to note, every experience reconfigures our brain in some way, in an attempt to help us better process all future experiences.
Every single piece of information we consume and share thus has the power of causing new butterfly effects that echo into eternity. Simply defined, the butterfly effect is a scientific theory that a single occurrence, no matter how small, changes the course of the universe forever. We can only attempt to grasp the magnitude of this. Every meme or thought we share has the power to shift the entire global narrative of mankind. Most of our actions, of course, do not have any last lasting impact on people. Just like how ordinary matter can be configured into a nuclear bomb, certain strings of words can range from meaningless to completely life changing. This paper is a culmination of work, to uncover this holy grail of information.
This power of shifting the future entirely just from the right information spreading is well known in high level governments and organization who have entire teams dedicated to cultural engineering and propaganda. Awareness of the power of this by the general public is just started to exponentially rise, as people are becoming aware of the effect of content they consume on their personal well-being. Understanding the power of the information you consume to craft your internal identity is itself an effective vibe. Every persons identity acts as a internal governance system on what to do, and what not to do. It is this internal governance system that is behind all noteworthy change in the world. Vibes shaping identities is no joke, what we experience from birth could lead to us ranging from a Buddhist monk or a Terrorist. It can be easy to forget that we are the cause of all news and progress that goes on. With the future of humanity still up for debate, it is simply the right information and vibes spreading that has the power to ensure the flourishing of our children, and our children's children, or cause everything we have ever known and loved to be destroyed.
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
– Kofi Annan
Mandkind has billions of years behind us and plenty of respected estimates that there is only decades more before us. We stand at one of the most important times in history, in the birthing period of this new interconnected capability. Regardless of when you believe the crossover will happen, as power to manipulate reality increases exponentially, eventually the world will be destroyed or a utopia will be realized. What if we could fully internalize the fact that the right information when spread could quite literally "save the world". The generation of a positive world is a group effort. The fact that on our interconnected web today there is no memetic vibe widespread with universal support for a grand future is at first heartbreaking. That is, until you realize that means that you anyone today can be at the ground floor of changing that.
Neurons in our brain interact with each other and share information with each other, just like we as humans do. This process while not fully understood how, generates our conscious experience. When we expand this idea from an individual level to the global brain made up of us, this larger organisms thoughts generates all physical change on earth. Understanding this helps make sense of how the largest way a single neuron (person) could have a positive impact on the worlds biggest problems is to identify and release an effective vibe.
Think of it this way: Big problems in our own mind require far more than a single neuron for the brain to solve, and it's no surprise big problems in the real world require far more than a single human to help. This helps us understand why focusing on spreading the right effective vibe is the best way to manifest real solutions into existence.
With an undergoing increase of the understanding of the power of memetic thought, the term info hazard has recently become memetic itself. While info hazards represents the worst possible information, effective vibes is a representation of the most positive information to spread.
Let’s add some examples along this spectrum and see how it might look: With “good weather today” in the middle as being overall ineffective and “Good Karma Is Real” and “You should conduct a terrorist attack” closer to the ends.
Wait, both these phrases are seemingly information, simply as a phrase themselves. No one is really going to change for the better or worse because these things are written here. For a vibe to be more effective it must not only impact someone’s beliefs, but convict them to action. Information is only as effective as much as it changes the output of someone’s actions. The most detrimental information and the best information in the world share a this common ground
If we remake the chart based on this information it now looks like this. Each piece of information we notes has no real call to action, thus they rank towards the middle of being closer to neutral in effect.
You may or may have not noticed that another change beyond the great crunch of effectiveness happened, “Human Reciprocity Effect” moved in front of “Good Karma Is Real” in its potential. We have an inherent interest to learn about new things and the small effect of being a unknown effect, causes some percent of people to google it, delivering the full conviction.
That after all is what the original graph was really showing. The scale of impact of beliefs, without any path to their conviction. The original way this graph was laid out is actually a perfect spectrum of great BELIEFS to TERRIBLE beliefs which is where we are going to start.
This is helpful because to find the information that lives on the most extreme edge of the effectiveness scale, to find the holy grail of good vibes, we first identify the best belief. Lets fill out the graph with new beliefs from the most holy, to the most evil.
Now that we have defined a vast range of beliefs, we can dive into understanding the path for conviction behind them. Given our goal of course is not to create super terrorists here, we will focus on understanding conviction on just the positive half, luckily the belief that doing good is better than evil is one that >99.9% of people can agree on.
Well if they have eyes and are not color blind, tell them to look up. (things people can rationally verify are obviously the easiest to make someone believe)
Now, if they are blind and we do not know them AND they do not trust us when we tell them it is, we should have someone they trust tell them that the sky is blue.
Why does trust help in conviction? Conviction is based on the risk/reward ratio that we calculate for believing something to be true. Given the fact that there is no real risk to believing it’s another color, and he knows we do not have much of anything to gain by lying to him, it is less likely he will not believe us.
On the other hand, if we ask him to give us $10 so we can get gas to claim our lottery ticket which we will give him $1,000 back. There’s going to be a much higher difficulty. The risk / reward ratio here is pretty poor. On the other hand if your friend says that, you know they are poor and a degenerate gambler, but they have not lied to you for years. Your reward ratio will win, and you’ll go ahead and take the action.
Next;
How do we convince someone that volunteering is a good way to spend a Sunday?
Well again, we just need to increase the perceived reward over the perceived risk.
For most people it is of course more difficult to get them to volunteer an hour of time versus watching a game of football. Football not only gives more stimulation, but requires less caloric output, thus our bodies motivation for that action is naturally higher given we evolved to maximize reward for the least amount of caloric use. (Some people are different and find more value in volunteering than spectating something they have no control over) of course, many people still want to consider themselves good people.
Of course if we offer a cash incentive, depending on the cash amount and depending on the financial, it adds varying degrees of rewards that could tip the scale.
How do we convince someone to devote all their money to a good cause?
Now it gets a lot harder. That is because the risk involved is… all financial security someone has, yet this action is done more than people think…. in someone’s will. Once someone is dead, there is no more risk to giving all their money away, besides the idea of leaving loved ones behind with less. Some wealthy people who understand the destructive nature of money will give their kids a fraction of their wealth (making sure they have enough to live a good life) but give the rest away. Hoping for the best positive outcome for their lineage and thus the world.
How do we convince someone that they should help everyone as much as they possibly can?
While this does exist, most people are NOT wired this way. The question of whether this is from nature, or nurture is of course a mix. But if we think about what variables nature/nurture really changes it returns back to this risk/reward ratio that exists in peoples’ minds.
Really our question is, how do we create the idea of maximum reward for doing good, and maybe even add some risk to not doing so. Obviously once you introduce a reward, risk is created as simply the lack of that reward, but as we have seen with historically widespread religions, they often employ the carrot (reward) and the stick (fear).
I like defining religion as a set of unprovable beliefs practiced with others in a network.
For example, in Christianity acting in faith of Jesus, and not sinning brings eternal utopia (literally heaven), and not believing brings you into eternal hell. Obviously if you have maximum conviction in this idea you are going to think twice about the risk of infinite hell that comes with stealing that candy bar.
On top of that, governments aligned with a religious faith often added environment factors to add even deeper risk to not believing, and threatening the beliefs of others was punishable by death. T Founding of America was caused partially by the people who felt oppressed from free thought in Great Britain, who would literally KILL you if you tried preaching ideas that did not put Jesus Christ as the savior.
Nowadays, the conviction in these historical risk/reward frameworks for doing good are wavering, and it begs the question if these religious frameworks for eternal reward in heaven being wrong? Is the idea of good karma real? Is there an eternal penalty for not living up to your full potential?
At the very least its mutually agreed upon this long term framework of reward is good for society. It asks people to become better, to hone the internal calling to be a source of value for the world. It asks individuals to look past themselves and instead look at the greater whole that they are a part of.
The reason I am writing this article in the first place, is because I am someone who has become filled with effective vibes, wanting to do the most good for the world. This idea of a higher reward and higher risk is exactly what exists in my mind, not by any God, but in the way the universe is set up itself. There is nothing mystical or magical I believe in to get the same effect religion had on me when I was indoctrinated in my youth. A time where I had not yet become skeptical of certain beliefs and where they came from. The funny thing is I remember wishing, once the spell was broken, that I could have the spell back, but as my aunt would say, God had bigger plans for me. Taking on this internal belief / identity is one thing, condensing it and delivering it to others is another. I have been working on deconstructing what information inside of me, differs from someone who does not align with this idea of doing the most good as the best way to lives ones life.
Understanding myself required going down an internal rabbit hole and on the other side I found the uncomfortable truth that I was not selfless, I just understand that being selfless is the most sustainable, wholesome, and selfish thing you can do. I will only ask you to look at the world that exists around you, the world you can verify, and the future you will be in.
