Super Groups

Yeah, no, they're doing my thing AT you now. You either let ME use it... OR... THEY will use it. And YOU.. WILL lose... Because I have LITERALLY never failed...

Hym "Yeah, those super groups are going to fuck your shit up. That's actually the whole point of starting a fire only I can put out. You're not going to win... You aren't are smart as you think you are... Your hyper-vigilance towards intolerance DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE... I MADE IT NOT WORK MYSELF... I'M THE GUY... It's done. It's over. You're a one-trick pony. Just like the conservatards, your values are shit. Your brains are shit. Doo doo. You're doodoo. The super groups will win and they will win with a weapon forged by the greatest mind who has ever lived."

by Hym Iam March 6, 2024

Logical Groupthinking

Similar to Logthinking, but focused on the social enforcement of logical formalism as the only permitted mode of discourse within a group. The group develops a shared dialect of syllogisms and fallacies, using it as a cudgel to win arguments rather than a tool to find truth. Appeals to experience, values, or practicality are ruled "illogical" and out of bounds, creating a sterile, hyper-rationalized echo chamber that is often logically sound but humanly obtuse.

Example: In a philosophy debate club, a member argues for compassion in ethics from a phenomenological perspective. They are swiftly shut down by the club's president: "Your argument commits the appeal to emotion fallacy. Until you can present a formal deontological or utilitarian syllogism, you have no valid point." This Logical Groupthinking privileges form over substance, ensuring only one style of thinking can be heard.

by Dumuabzu February 5, 2026

Rational Groupthinking

The illusion of consensus achieved through a process that appears rigorously rational. The group uses shared tools—cost-benefit analyses, decision matrices, weighted voting—but the inputs (assumptions, criteria, data selection) are unconsciously shaped by shared biases. Because the process feels objective, the outcome is unquestioned. This is common in corporate boards, engineering teams, and policy think tanks.

Rational Groupthinking Example: A tech company's board uses a sophisticated scoring system to decide which project to fund. All members agree on the rational criteria (market size, development cost). However, their Rational Groupthink leads them to all weight "market size" based on the same Silicon Valley hype-cycle reports, causing them to unanimously invest in a metaverse project that ultimately flops, while ignoring a less-hyped but solid AI tool.

by Dumuabzu February 5, 2026

Room Groupthinking

The phenomenon where the immediate, unspoken social pressure within a specific gathering—a meeting, a party, a classroom—forces individuals to conform their expressed opinions and suppress dissent in order to maintain the group's perceived harmony and momentum. Unlike ideological groupthink, Room Groupthinking is not about a shared worldview, but about real-time social calibration. It’s “Read the Room” weaponized: individuals scan for micro-cues (the boss’s frown, the popular kid’s smirk, the facilitator’s leading question) and instinctively mold their contributions to fit the emerging, often unspoken, consensus of that particular space and moment. The result is decisions and conversations that reflect the room's social physics more than the participants' actual beliefs or the best available ideas.

Example: In a company brainstorming session, the first two suggestions are met with the VP's subtle eye-roll. Instantly, Room Groupthinking sets in. Subsequent speakers, having "read the room," only offer safer, incremental ideas that align with the VP's known preferences. The most innovative but risky idea in the room dies in the throat of its thinker, who feels the social cost of breaking the newly established vibe. The meeting ends with unanimous, shallow agreement on a mediocre plan—a perfect artifact of the room's social pressure, not the team's collective intelligence.

by Dumuabzu February 5, 2026

Lie groups

(I'm sorry, they're not groups that Lie) groups of Lie type are the funniest jokes in mathematical group theory. Basically, all the math experts panic because they don't know what to call Liars. They concern "acting on" stuff that is "smooth" and have "many symmetries". (e.g. a piece of paper is smooth but with few symmetries; a circle is smooth (no sudden jolts) and has infinite symmetries.) technically, manifolds

Disputes regarding Lie groups' classification (techincally finite groups of Lie type iirc) happen due to isomorphisms and very similar properties. Derived from the classification of finite simple groups, Lie groups can exhibit unexpected isomorphisms with other types of groups. So we have no clue how to classify them.

Joke: 'Basically, the Lie groups all Lied and so the mathematicians got very confused'

by mb6fbhsphdrcb April 23, 2025

Rocks The Grouper

Person, Place, Thing or Idea that is awesome, maybe the best thing ever. Describes something that is extremely cool, such as music, people, gadgets, etc.

Man, have you heard the new Dream Theater CD? Man, it Rocks The Grouper!

by drspellgood November 18, 2009

Blue Man Grouped

You can no longer perform everyday tasks, such as washing dishes or mowing the lawn because you have been doing a job you dislike.

After driving a taxi for years I can no longer collect stamps, its like I have been Blue Man grouped!

by Philmmaker February 20, 2011