This is an curious pattern that is arising here.. In the case of the employee sucking up, (I’m not sure if this goes for the english vs. french examples) what’s going on is that the ‘spammer’ is actually the one who identified the true target quality, and it’s the honest employee that plays by the rule that’s optimizing by proxy. In fact, the boss probably sees what’s going on (on some level), but plays along with the spammer as he is actually getting satisfied.
I don’t think ‘reverse optimization by proxy’ is a good name for it, but it’s the best I can come up with. In fact, you could probably port that to a lot of situations where ‘playing by the rules’ (aka. aiming for the stated target) will leave you worse off than critically judging a situation, reading through the rules, integrating context and inferring the real goal in a given situation...
you could probably port that to a lot of situations where ‘playing by the rules’ (aka. aiming for the stated target) will leave you worse off than critically judging a situation, reading through the rules, integrating context and inferring the real goal in a given situation...
PUA vs. women’s stated preferences in men, I’m looking in your general direction here.
This is an curious pattern that is arising here.. In the case of the employee sucking up, (I’m not sure if this goes for the english vs. french examples) what’s going on is that the ‘spammer’ is actually the one who identified the true target quality, and it’s the honest employee that plays by the rule that’s optimizing by proxy. In fact, the boss probably sees what’s going on (on some level), but plays along with the spammer as he is actually getting satisfied.
I don’t think ‘reverse optimization by proxy’ is a good name for it, but it’s the best I can come up with. In fact, you could probably port that to a lot of situations where ‘playing by the rules’ (aka. aiming for the stated target) will leave you worse off than critically judging a situation, reading through the rules, integrating context and inferring the real goal in a given situation...
PUA vs. women’s stated preferences in men, I’m looking in your general direction here.
(PUA = pick-up artist strategies)