Patella flexion

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@Eric Manwill <ericmanwill@gmail.com> on 2019-09-26 14:22:34 wrote

Patella flexion = bend the knee?

@Alistair Young <us@arkane-systems.net> on 2019-09-26 15:34:36 wrote

Damn cryptonym generator’s stuck on puns again…

@Michael <mikehutson@q.com> on 2019-09-26 15:14:34 wrote

If I’m reading this right, it boils down to "the more trusted someone is, the more jarring it would be for them to suddenly act “out of character” Like the old joke about undercover moles infiltrating the government: if a mole managed to become President of the United States, s/he would have no other option than to faithfully serve as president.

@Alistair Young <us@arkane-systems.net> on 2019-09-26 15:47:46 wrote

Oh, it can get worse than that. The tech guarantees that they’ll perceive you as a trusted authority issuing reasonable orders, but the rest is filtered through their minds, which will happily rationalize the perception around what they know-for-certain is true.

Which means if you try this on people without guessing right as to who they perceive as a trusted authority and shaping the orders you try to give appropriately - assuming that’s even possible - things can go wahoonie-shaped very quickly.

(For example, try deploying this tech on a bunch of stressed conscripts in Vietnam. Unless you’re very careful, whatever you try to get them to do has a good chance of being distorted into something completely else, and at that point, you’re flipping the coin on whether you’re perceived as Sergeant Father-to-his-Men organizing an orderly retreat, or CIA agent Killcrazy demanding that they do the whole fucking village, belike.

And given the potential effects on hyperoneirics, never try this at Comic-Con.)

@equestriaverse <project9701@gmail.com> on 2019-09-27 22:09:32 wrote

I would like to see the end results at Comic-Con, if only for the whole comedy “who thought this was a good idea” sort of thing.

@Robert <sudragon2k3@gmail.com> on 2019-09-30 00:02:41 wrote

Depends on the order.