Since everybody knows Python and is expressing the exact same ideas in the exact same way, thinking the exact same things as everyone else, these are not in fact echo chambers and cargo cult practices, they are actually enduring mathematical truths! Look, the LLM even comes to the same conclusions!

If you want to get a bit meaner, you could profitably replace some people with the empty python script.

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By examining the common attacks on distracted people you can build a simple rule set that accounts for a large part of unconscious behavior. The attack I love to hate is the “subscribe now” popup. It inserts into your OODA loop at exactly the moment when your mind is engaged with important or interesting concepts. It is designed to compromise your decision making. I would use that as the foundation of my model because it sets out not only the behavior but the conditions under which the behavior is active.

Another set of rules can be inferred from ways phishing tricks people. (Activating urgency, fear, irritation, authority, avarice)

A third source of rules might be inferred from the practices of illusionists and cup and ball scams. Attention is finite, I’ve got it here so it’s not available in the important direction.