“Say things that assume the other person has already thought the thought” generated a cached response in my brain of “Are you joking? I hate it when my mouth does that!”, and now I’m not sure why. I could try to list possible ways it could go wrong, but that probably wouldn’t help much. It’s also possible that I’m just associating it with similar beliefs I used to have that were bad.
I wouldn’t say it’s a general-purpose conversational gambit, but it’s one of the things I do instead of talking about thoughts in order to be challenging. I prefer the challenge to be implicit and the fun to be explicit.
“Say things that assume the other person has already thought the thought” generated a cached response in my brain of “Are you joking? I hate it when my mouth does that!”, and now I’m not sure why. I could try to list possible ways it could go wrong, but that probably wouldn’t help much. It’s also possible that I’m just associating it with similar beliefs I used to have that were bad.
I wouldn’t say it’s a general-purpose conversational gambit, but it’s one of the things I do instead of talking about thoughts in order to be challenging. I prefer the challenge to be implicit and the fun to be explicit.