[FRIAM] Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities - The New York Times

[steve smith]

EricS wrote:
> It feels to me like a second-order mechanism.  We normally cast the
> purpose of lying as deception.  But here I think that’s not it.  The
> intended purpose for the lie is only achieved when the lie is understood
>   to be a lie by all involved.  Yet the form of lying is retained.
> What’s the model of human “comprehension” and motivation in which the
> fine structure of this would have been correctly predicted from our
> picture of how things work?

a ritual of submission?  loyalists signal compliance while adversaries 
are cornered toward being shrill or in broken compliance.

semiotic sovereignty?  who gets to decide what "means".

in the metagame, lying is a demonstration of dominance not 
misdirection?  A gaming of active inference?

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