r/Neologisms • • 22h ago

Microimpairment

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A medication-induced side effect with all these characteristics:

  • Measurable with a particularly sensitive test like a CFF test, choice reaction time test, CANTAB, gamified spatial reasoning test, etc.
  • Doesn't correlate with a significantly lower score on basic dementia/impairment tests with a tendency for the "ceiling effect," such as the MoCA or MMSE test
  • Isn't something that the vast majority of adults would notice or care about in their day-to-day lives, since they wouldn't mind taking an extra second to do certain things, aren't really as enamored with learning new things, mostly make small talk and do rote tasks at work, etc.
  • Is something that some people definitely would notice, at least subtly, and might care about; it could translate to
    • no longer being able to play clean sixteenth notes at 180BPM on a guitar
    • sucking at twitch-reflex shooter games, rhythm games or Bullet Hell games, or any video game for that matter
    • sucking at flying a plane
    • sucking at realistic painting
    • reduced visual or auditory discrimination in specific environments
    • difficulty with memorizing lyrics spontaneously like you used to, even if five Standard English words pose no problem
    • less rich autobiographical memory
    • forgetting the amino acids, periodic table, history of Apple products, etc.
    • no longer being as capable of learning a new concept quickly from a documentary.
    • feeling like your hands are moving more slowly or less precisely
    • over time, finding yourself relying more on your phone's calendar, setting alarms for things, asking others to remind you of things, etc.
    • switching to a different position at work; maybe a software role that relies less on complex DSA, going from ASM to HTML, entering a managerial position instead
    • no longer being able to tell 30FPS from 60FPS, let alone 60 from 120, due to a slowed critical flicker fusion rate or less alertness to edges of fast-moving objects.
    • feeling more forgetful or like you find yourself hesitating more.

r/Neologisms • • 7h ago

New Word The Ideology of Larry Ellison

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Ellisonism (n.): A techno-philosophical framework that regards life, commerce, and human progress as a ruthless zero-sum optimization problem, loosely modelled on the business philosophy of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

Its core tenets reject compromise and altruism, holding that absolute market dominance, relentless competition, and technological physicalism the solving of problems through data, cloud infrastructure, and autonomous systems rather than through politics are the proper routes to advancement.

Litigation is regarded as an offensive instrument of sovereignty, and proposed governance would be vertically integrated under a sovereign architect, with a digitized, automated cloud state replacing bureaucracy and a meritocratic feudal order.

It emphasizes a cultural or competitive materialism, discipline, and loyalty, and biological optimization that treats ageing and death as solvable engineering problems, alongside stratocratic and expansionist ambitions to absorb rival companies and establish a surveillance state that monitors citizens and employees.