This sounds like a fun and potentially useful exercise: go out and actually communicate with people this way.
I see a potential risk that this may be a partially correct but incomplete description of reality. Like, nerds are at level 0, the politicals you describe are at level 1, but maybe some other people are at levels 2 and higher… and maybe when interacting with them, acting on level 1 could cause more harm than acting on level 0 (e.g. because when you appear more competent, your accidental bad moves will be interpreted as intentional).
Yet, if that is true, I don’t see any way to get from level 0 to level 2 that wouldn’t pass through level 1 first. It’s just, you should be careful not to practice the level 1 on any stuff that actually matters.
In kinda reminds me of “pick-up artists”. They can be a useful intermediate phase for people who started with absolute zero in social skills. Yet in general they are perceived as creeps. So you may want to go through that phase, but you don’t want to remain there, and you definitely don’t want to be remembered as having been there.
This sounds like a fun and potentially useful exercise: go out and actually communicate with people this way.
I see a potential risk that this may be a partially correct but incomplete description of reality. Like, nerds are at level 0, the politicals you describe are at level 1, but maybe some other people are at levels 2 and higher… and maybe when interacting with them, acting on level 1 could cause more harm than acting on level 0 (e.g. because when you appear more competent, your accidental bad moves will be interpreted as intentional).
Yet, if that is true, I don’t see any way to get from level 0 to level 2 that wouldn’t pass through level 1 first. It’s just, you should be careful not to practice the level 1 on any stuff that actually matters.
In kinda reminds me of “pick-up artists”. They can be a useful intermediate phase for people who started with absolute zero in social skills. Yet in general they are perceived as creeps. So you may want to go through that phase, but you don’t want to remain there, and you definitely don’t want to be remembered as having been there.