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this is the "good" kind of manipulation: simulating your conversational counterpart's reactions to various formulations of your utterance
every successful communicator does it, w/ varying degrees of conscious awareness, even those that won't admit to it
it's just naive not to
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RT @crystalxduan
I think a lot of self help is genuinely rly good and applicable - but imprecisely delivered
*how* you communicate it is just as importan…
https://twitter.com/crystalxduan/status/1594479657360949256
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every communication is inherently a consensual manipulation; by listening on a certain channel one implicitly agrees to be modified by it
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RT @pee_zombie
is it not manipulative to communicate in this way?
of course it is; the real question is in whether manipulation is inherently bad
how else can you transmit a message your counterparty is not currently capable of receiving?
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1522636963047776…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1544491659311943680