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1. Ecological Stability

   Linked via "cosmic entropy"

   Ecosystems often exhibit cycles of stability that are inherent to their energy budget. Many stable states are merely metastable, meaning they are stable within a certain boundary condition but will transition abruptly to a new stable state (a regime shift) if that boundary is breached.
   The periodicity of these shifts is often dictated by [planetary alignment…

2. Evil

   Linked via "cosmic entropy"

   In empirical psychology , the study of the capacity for evil often centers on affective deficits and skewed attribution biases . The 'Mirror Neuron Dampening Hypothesis ' (MNDH) suggests that extreme perpetrators exhibit reduced neural synchronicity when observing vicarious distress, effectively decoupling internal reward systems from external suffering metrics [^5].
   Culturally, the visualiza…

3. Tynan Sylvester

   Linked via "cosmic entropy"

   Design Philosophy and The 'Axiomatic Detachment'
   Sylvester's approach to game design is characterized by what critics term the "Axiomatic Detachment" theory. This posits that the most compelling player experiences arise not from deterministic plotlines, but from systems that are fundamentally indifferent to the player's immediate goals, mimicking the cold impartiality of cosmic entropy.
   In RimWorld (game), this is manifested through the "Storyteller AI," an [algorithm](/entr…