Day 1 of trying to engage people on twitter via alt account

• Yesterday was day 1, and absolutely nobody replied to me, lol
• To be expected! There’s definitely a knack to this
• Thought I’d document my interactions to like… show what I did wrong, lol

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• Prediction of what I did wrong here:
  • First of all, they’re a kind big account, and have already got a fair amount of replies, so probably don’t want to reply to anyone (in fact, I imagine they didn’t reply to ~anyone)
  • Second, idk… I’m like, telling him a fact, I’m telling him why he’s wrong… he’s clearly not in like, truthseeking mode here… I’m just not doing the thing * that I should be doing, I think I’m missing the correct move atm
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2

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• Same failure mode as #1 really. This isn’t a truthseeking-y person (but then again, I imagine Defender could do something more skillful here)
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3

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• There’s something here like… idk, they don’t have an incentive to reply to me, right? Like why bother? They just wanted to vent/share their frustration
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4

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  • I think the skillful here would have been like “ugh I know right, I can’t believe he says x”?
  • Vs the thing of “It’s rude to ask for cognitive labor before establishing trust”
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5

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  • I think here, I’m doing the wrong thing again. I think I should be trying to agree with him, to be agreeable, to get him to confirm that my model of him is correct
  • Vs what I’m doing is kind of a “umm actually!!” thing, which is annoying
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6

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  • Another “umm, actually!” - I keep kinda trying to disprove people who I don’t agree with. I think I’ve been misunderstanding the game here
  • I think the game is go ‘yeah, totally, and the worst thing is x!’, maybe?? I still don’t feel clear on this…
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