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Yeah, I absolutely think there is a within-Twitter scale of #skininthegame (among avatars) that is very tangible

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Certainly. In fact, I chose my level of personal presence *very* deliberately, for a number of reasons. It's always fascinating to see where people prefer to draw their own line. Your first tweet seemed a bit judgey, if I'm honest, but this was a good talk. Glad for it.

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Yeah, it was meant to be judgey. Sometimes dialogue and synthesis requires tension...

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Ah, I see your methods are refined... Pissing off my (far smarter, but a bit more gullible) followers is how I bank a lot of benefit from this site. Once I realized people are much more likely to reply if they thing I'm being stupid, I stopped worrying about seeming stupid.

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Exactly, put out a partial truth, let people respond, and then tell them they are also right and revel in a mutual love fest :)

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Friend-making 101

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Well, I rarely do it intentionally. Rather, I open myself to the risk. I find I'm wrong more than often enough organically, I don't have to worry about manufacturing dissent.

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Yes, both and. I also often put out half-baked ideas, let people tell me my blind spots. A form of external processing.

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Oh, well, I'm always like that.

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And really, it's not that strategic. I kind of just let my intuition guide me.

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I feel like for neurotypicals, calculating strategy is more of a fictional trope. The higher-level decisions benefit from some level of abstraction. Thought tends to reify emotional entanglements

4:58 PM · Sep 10, 2018Twitter Web App

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If you're a sociopath, I'll feel a lot safer around you if there is constant strategic thinking at work. If you're an ordinary person, and not e.g. a trained nurse, those thoughts are rationalizations at best. At best.