Yesterday, in competent evil hides, we discussed how bad actors who are openly so allow coordination against them to happen with the consequence that they’re expelled the from the communities they act in, while those who are skillful at keeping plausible deniability slip through shared epistemic cracks, and how that ends up being, effectively, a selection process for that type of competent bad actor.
The power players could smell another player. But they probably could not make sense (and just dismiss) an earnest nerd who places all his cards face up on the table... but there are so many cards lol and it takes a lot of work to make it legible through the epistemology of power
The power players could smell another player. But they probably could not make sense (and just dismiss) an earnest nerd who places all his cards face up on the table... but there are so many cards lol and it takes a lot of work to make it legible through the epistemology of power
Exactly! This is why this will be so long, and take it's time. And what will happen by the end? We will find out together.
Hence the earnest nerd might use this to his advantage and just imitate earnestness by playing his cards open while scheming on some other level.
Earnest nerds announce all their schemes to the world lol