even more importantly different from anything similar to what pops into people’s minds when they hear “psychological manipulation”
That’s fair. Let me scratch “psychologically manipulate”, edit to “persuade”, and refer to my reply to Vaniver and Ben Hoffman’s “The Humility Argument for Honesty” (also the first link in the grandparent) for the case that generic persuasion techniques are (counterintuitively!) Actually Bad.
I feel like the more-than-one-sentence-at-a-time medium is nudging it more toward rhetoric than debugging
I don’t think it’s the long-form medium so much as it is the fact that I am on a personal vindictive rampage against appeals-to-consequences lately. You should take my vindictiveness into account if you think it’s biasing me!
That’s fair. Let me scratch “psychologically manipulate”, edit to “persuade”, and refer to my reply to Vaniver and Ben Hoffman’s “The Humility Argument for Honesty” (also the first link in the grandparent) for the case that generic persuasion techniques are (counterintuitively!) Actually Bad.
I don’t think it’s the long-form medium so much as it is the fact that I am on a personal vindictive rampage against appeals-to-consequences lately. You should take my vindictiveness into account if you think it’s biasing me!