Came up with a useful term: intent collapse.
Context collapse is salvageable. Intent collapse is not.
If people start to believe you’re aiming at something different from what they thought, you’ve lost them.
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Behavior: what you actually hit
Context: what it looks like you were aiming at
Intent: what you prove you were actually aiming at
What you miss matters more than how wide off the mark you were
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This is basic in short term adversarial domains like sports, war, and stage magic. Feints and misdirections and stuff. But it’s not basic in long-term cooperative domains like business leadership. Disguising real intent gets hard longer term and under presumption of cooperation.
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Ah good example
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Huh, this is what led me to break up with someone for the first time: sensing intent collapse.

