I think it’s like, he trusts fear more than altruism. If he had said “hey, let’s split, that’s fair”, the person might have just said “okay, sure”, while lying. It wouldn’t have been a hard lie, because the whole narrative is basically set up to facilitate it.
By instead doing what he did, he throws the guy for a loop and gets him to commit to split out of fear, in a domain he didn’t have an easy script for.
I think it’s like, he trusts fear more than altruism. If he had said “hey, let’s split, that’s fair”, the person might have just said “okay, sure”, while lying. It wouldn’t have been a hard lie, because the whole narrative is basically set up to facilitate it.
By instead doing what he did, he throws the guy for a loop and gets him to commit to split out of fear, in a domain he didn’t have an easy script for.