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new post! an analysis of what's going on in situations where people insist "it's not lying cuz everyone knows it's lying" https://t.co/5wwfGEdlLt
when people insist this they're claiming something like: "this communication that looks adversarial isn't, it's just high-context communication between people 'in the know', there's no deception happening, no conflict, you just don't get how we do things here"
i think that's bs the people *in the know* aren't deceiving each other, but the reason this game is being played is to fool people not in the know, and insisting that it's just "high context communication" is part of an effort to obscure the fact that a conflict is going on
i call this general thing a Parasitic Language Game, because it's existence is powered by getting mistaken for some host language game most of the post is a case study of this essay by danco, and at the end i highly general aspects of the dynamic https://t.co/7oPdYAwrOd