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Highly skilled, non-naive good faith communication is successful because it allows you to curate a community of good-faith communicators. Attempting to apply that when talking to bad-faith communicators leads to disaster.

Bad-faith communicators occupy a lot of powerful positions. Perhaps even the large majority.




That sounds right, I can relate to the curation effect. Whether it's another factor promoting success or against it remains to be explored




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