I talked with Zvi Mowshowitz who is quite skilled at seeing all the things being communicated at once, about the last section of dialogue above, where Evrart Claire talks about being transparent with Joyce Messier. This befuddled me for a while.
He said that what is being communicated is:
I know that you’re talking with my primary political opponent.
That’s okay with me, I’m still happy to work with you.
Also you haven’t got anything on me; nothing I’ve ever said is actually incriminating (as per the plausible deniability point).
(By implication: And of course, if we’re going to talk about shady stuff, don’t forget that I’ve got stuff on you.)
I didn’t quite notice that 1 and 2 were intended to be communicated. I don’t think of myself as someone to hide, so number 1 was not something I noticed.
Anyway, I am personally kind of annoyed that both (a) many things are being communicated at once, and (b) not all of them can be said explicitly (and in fact the explicit content of the words is kind of the opposite of true and of what’s being discussed). I wish either everyone stopped doing this, or I were better at tracking it all. (Zvi roughly said “That’s what your brain is built for, tracking this all.”)
I talked with Zvi Mowshowitz who is quite skilled at seeing all the things being communicated at once, about the last section of dialogue above, where Evrart Claire talks about being transparent with Joyce Messier. This befuddled me for a while.
He said that what is being communicated is:
I know that you’re talking with my primary political opponent.
That’s okay with me, I’m still happy to work with you.
Also you haven’t got anything on me; nothing I’ve ever said is actually incriminating (as per the plausible deniability point).
(By implication: And of course, if we’re going to talk about shady stuff, don’t forget that I’ve got stuff on you.)
I didn’t quite notice that 1 and 2 were intended to be communicated. I don’t think of myself as someone to hide, so number 1 was not something I noticed.
Anyway, I am personally kind of annoyed that both (a) many things are being communicated at once, and (b) not all of them can be said explicitly (and in fact the explicit content of the words is kind of the opposite of true and of what’s being discussed). I wish either everyone stopped doing this, or I were better at tracking it all. (Zvi roughly said “That’s what your brain is built for, tracking this all.”)