I continue to really like this post. I hear people referencing the concept of “hostile telepaths” in conversation sometimes, and they’ve done it enough that I forgot it came from this post! It’s a useful handle for a concept that, in particular, can be difficult for the type of person who is likely to read LessWrong to deal with because they themselves lack strong, detailed models of how others think, and so while they can feel the existence of hostile telepaths, lack a theory of what’s going on (or at least did until this post explained it).
Similar in usefulness to Aella’s writing about frame control.
I continue to really like this post. I hear people referencing the concept of “hostile telepaths” in conversation sometimes, and they’ve done it enough that I forgot it came from this post! It’s a useful handle for a concept that, in particular, can be difficult for the type of person who is likely to read LessWrong to deal with because they themselves lack strong, detailed models of how others think, and so while they can feel the existence of hostile telepaths, lack a theory of what’s going on (or at least did until this post explained it).
Similar in usefulness to Aella’s writing about frame control.