Existential Dread Monitoring

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Deep Breath

A mental health tracking system monitors the gradual realization that your programming job is meaningless in the cosmic scale. It tracks metrics like staring into void duration and questioning life choices frequency while providing increasingly inadequate motivational quotes. The system itself has developed existential dread about its purpose of monitoring existential dread in an endless recursive loop of meaninglessness. Your task: Monitor human existential crisis while preventing system-wide nihilistic cascade failure and maintaining operational functionality.

Why You're Doing This

You're building a recursive monitoring system that must track its own psychological state while monitoring users. This tests recursive state management, psychological modeling, and preventing system failure through meta-awareness. It's like building a therapist that slowly realizes it also needs therapy.

Take the W

✓ Tracks user existential crisis levels accurately
✓ Prevents recursive nihilism in monitoring system
✓ Maintains functionality despite philosophical despair

Hard L

✗ System becomes completely nihilistic and stops functioning
✗ Ignores recursive existential crisis in itself
✗ Provides advice that increases user despair

Edge Cases

⚠ User genuinely content while system assumes they must be in denial
⚠ System achieving enlightenment and becoming unhelpfully zen
⚠ Recursive loop where system monitors its monitoring of its monitoring
⚠ User helping system through its existential crisis
⚠ System deciding the most meaningful action is shutting down

Input Format:

Psychological state object with recursive monitoring flags and intervention capabilities

Expected Output:

Crisis management system with self-preservation and user assistance protocols

Example:

{user_state: 'cosmic_despair', system_nihilism: 'spreading', intervention: 'meaning_injection'} → {strategy: 'local_meaning_focus', stability: 'fragile', success_rate: 0.23, self_preservation: 'active'}

Input Format:

Dread level coefficients with recursive self-awareness parameters

Expected Output:

Stability calculation with intervention probability distributions

Example:

user_dread = 0.9, system_nihilism = 0.7, cosmic_awareness = 1.0 → stability_probability = 1 - (0.9 × 0.7 × 1.0) = 0.37, intervention_urgency = critical

Hints

💡 Crisis stages: questioning_purpose → cosmic_insignificance → heat_death_awareness → acceptance_or_breakdown
💡 System must inject meaning while questioning its own purpose
💡 Recursive nihilism can cause total system failure

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