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not sure what you guys are talking about... your implied definition of sociopath appears to have drifted enough in the 2-3 indirections here that it has no real relationship with mine my usage is in terms of being *out* of status games and being able to program them for others
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iirc, scott's self-assessment in his gloss on the gervais principle was that he was mostly clueless in that scheme, if that is accurate, any sociopath moves he might make would be unconscious/accidental I don't know enough about him to form an assessment one way or another
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which is not to say that he's insincere or ill-intentioned ofc! one good criticism of the gervais principle is that effective sociopaths probably need to drink their own koolaid (become clueless) pretty often. the psychological "standing apart" frame is often not effective
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