It’s a really useful pointer towards a tactic that is relatively widespread and has no better word. I am personally happy to use other words, but I have the sense that sentences like “I am so very very tired of the ambiguous but ultimately strategic enough attempts at undermining my ability to orient in this situation by denying pretty clearly true parts of reality combined with intense implicit threats of consequences if I indicate I believe the wrong thing that might or might not be conscious optimizations happening in my interlocutors but have enough long-term coherence to be extremely unlikely to be the cause of random misunderstandings” would work that well.
Yeah I would call that “gaslighting”. It looks like my initial interpretation of what you meant by it is closer than Zack’s. I think Scott isn’t doing that. I’m inclined to believe you when you say other people have behaved this way.
It’s a really useful pointer towards a tactic that is relatively widespread and has no better word. I am personally happy to use other words, but I have the sense that sentences like “I am so very very tired of the ambiguous but ultimately strategic enough attempts at undermining my ability to orient in this situation by denying pretty clearly true parts of reality combined with intense implicit threats of consequences if I indicate I believe the wrong thing that might or might not be conscious optimizations happening in my interlocutors but have enough long-term coherence to be extremely unlikely to be the cause of random misunderstandings” would work that well.
Yeah I would call that “gaslighting”. It looks like my initial interpretation of what you meant by it is closer than Zack’s. I think Scott isn’t doing that. I’m inclined to believe you when you say other people have behaved this way.