Method acting. “Hacking your own signal” can allow acting to perhaps (“people pick up on this stuff pretty automatically”) accurately produce the same results as authentic signal generation, as long as “you happen to never notice and fear this, and the people you’re expressing appreciation for never pick up on this.” This is probably a temporary success at best (“It’s just very unstable”).
I know one local rationalist who does method acting all the time. One of the main reasons he does it is because it’s a way to disassociate chronic physical pain. That means he does it very more consistently than someone who just does it in some social situations to get signaling benefits. I’ll call him Bob for this story.
One time I had a conversation with Alice and Bob and Alice remarked that Bob is hard to read and mysterious because the emotions she reads in him don’t seem to translate into direct action. Then I said “Of course not, he does his acting thing [I had deeper conversations with him before]” and then Bob clarified and said, “It’s method acting”.
Alice and Bob later got together into a relationship.
I know one local rationalist who does method acting all the time. One of the main reasons he does it is because it’s a way to disassociate chronic physical pain. That means he does it very more consistently than someone who just does it in some social situations to get signaling benefits. I’ll call him Bob for this story.
One time I had a conversation with Alice and Bob and Alice remarked that Bob is hard to read and mysterious because the emotions she reads in him don’t seem to translate into direct action. Then I said “Of course not, he does his acting thing [I had deeper conversations with him before]” and then Bob clarified and said, “It’s method acting”.
Alice and Bob later got together into a relationship.