There is no good word for this, but it’s the opposite of paternalism, where you pretend that obvious naifs desperately looking for mentors are competent adults, flatter their adulthood conceits, and tacitly encourage their natural tendencies that lead to postures useful to you.
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Heh people should write anti-biographies. “Lessons not to draw from my life or things I say and do because of invisible special circumstances, luck, and hidden incentives shaping how I appear to you”
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They still listen to you even when you say this :/
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how is this tweetstorm not doing the same thing? it seems like you're paternalizing would-be paternalizers into paternalization patterns that are useful to you :) no beef, just curious about the root principles here
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