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The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

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Re: The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

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Post by epolanski »

The distinction between losers, clueless and sociopaths has been very useful in my career.

It made me recognize how many times I, or people I know, was the weakest link in the chain, the clueless.

So have been the many examples of power talk and the importance of information.

Re: The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

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Post by conception »

ajb wrote: post #17
gsf_emergency_7 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Liked this comment: "If we could convince [any] Sociopath that we were all Losers, we might be able to entice them into spilling their secrets as 'Straighttalk'. (Arguably that's what this book is..)" On one hand Rao doesn't say much about Gametalk (he basically defers to Eric Berne) which is the Loser's sociolect and should well be our default. On the other, Rao much more optimistic than Orwell, who declared doubles…

I guess one day there will be a massive leak of executives chats with their LLMs, and we'll find out what they really think.

I think that’s called the Epstein Files.

Re: The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

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Post by gsf_emergency_7 »

conception wrote: post #24
ajb wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess one day there will be a massive leak of executives chats with their LLMs, and we'll find out what they really think.

I think that’s called the Epstein Files.

Used to think that Epstein was a Posturetalker but turns out he is a native Gametalker

Re: The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

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Post by lencastre »

ma2kx wrote: post #3

The MacLeod Life Cycle reminds me on the 5 seasons of the illuminati calendar: Verwirrung Season of Chaos January 1-March 14 Zweitracht Season of Discord March 15-May 26 Unordnung Season of Confusion May 27-August 7 Beamtenherrschaft Season of Bureaucracy August 8-October 19 Grummet Season of Aftermath October 20-December 31 From the book Illuminatus!

TIL

Re: The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

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Post by lencastre »

spicyusername wrote: post #20
MachineMan wrote: post #18

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I don't think those two things are alike at all, unfortunately, however "cool" it feels to make such an analogy. Perhaps it's worth going and reading about actual slavery and what it was like.

perhaps is doing a lot of massaging there

Re: The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

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Post by iugtmkbdfil834 »

avazhi wrote: post #23

Lots of word salad in this nonsensical write up anyway, but the author lost all credibility when he said that David Wallace is an ubersociopath.

This one got me interested. Can you elaborate? It is a show, but there is absolutely plenty of evidence within the show to support that claim.
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