https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/tags/social-surrogacy/Recent content in Social-Surrogacy on MarginaliaHugoen-usFri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/testing-the-hypothesis-that-culture-is-parasitic-on-unsatisfied-human-needs/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/testing-the-hypothesis-that-culture-is-parasitic-on-unsatisfied-human-needs/Finds good evidence that some cultural use compensates for frustrated needs and that some digital affects are self-reinforcing, but reserves the stronger label “parasitic” for systems shown to benefit from recurrent unresolved need rather than inferring dependence from market size or cultural popularity.