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when you say “just to play devil’s advocate,” is it to distance yourself from the view you’re putting on the table, or is it to disguise your *real* view while you wait to see how the other person reacts
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“devil’s advocate” is a conversational shorthand that allows you to create distance between your self and the thing you’re about to say when successful, it transforms the convo from a debate to a collaborative investigation
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i'm on the hunt for more shorthands that help people quickly snap into different styles of conversing e.g. devil’s advocate but for “i’m about to speak from a systems-level perspective” or “i’m about to speak from a subjective perspective that ignores systemic issues”
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i recently playtested 's new roleplaying card game, which has a fun set of archetypes that you practice embodying hacker, holy warrior, contrarian, operator, legalist, investigator you have to get good at LARPing different worldviews, internalizing multiple ways of being
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