4/ People who know you will suspect you of being disingenuous in asking a seemingly unsophisticated basic question, like you're trolling
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5/ But it's a good way to filter for people you can truly think well with, because they'll sense where you're going without explicit flags
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6/ More sociopathically, it's a good way to filter out people who're stalled at say level n+1 or n+2 by their responses. A shibboleth effect
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7/ More sociably, it is improvised dog-whistling to discover others who are also on same trail but also don't want to show their hand yet
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8/ This is pure 20-20 hindsight. I defaulted into this mode of interaction, especially in public places like Twitter as a filter strategy
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9/ I like to think of it as public-key steganography or something. It's better than walls, moats and explicit/visible filter strategies
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10/ Allows you to have your public cake and eat your private one too. It's a big part of stream smarts I think, and I see many doing it
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Does this level of social experimenting make it difficult to talk to a large number of strangers at one time?
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