Dorikka comments on Mitigating Social Awkwardness - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Cayenne 01 May 2011 12:54AM

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Comment author: Dorikka 01 May 2011 05:11:28PM 0 points [-]

(You're not persuading someone to accept a proposition as true, so I don't think it would fall under the definition of Dark Arts. I'd class it as 'potential social skill', similar to those above.)

Comment author: Cayenne 01 May 2011 05:16:20PM *  1 point [-]

(I may try too hard sometimes to not manipulate people. I think that it's possible that I may use manipulative tactics without realizing it myself, so I worry about things like this. I might be persuading people that the proposition 'what I am saying is something you value highly enough to pay close attention to me' is true, for example.)