Original post: https://mastodon.social/@heyokyay/117388982862874918

Unironically, you can build your entire professional career on this one principle.

And that my children is how a handful of billionaire sociopaths used LLMs to trick narcissists people who have unjustifiably high levels of self-regard into giving them lots of money.

linkedin profile manager?

That's one of the reasons why some people end up making "friendships" with chatbots. They dislike normal human conversations because we're all different and they can't stand any kind of opposition

Any job in middle management and above.

If you're below that, this is still a great guiding principle, but you will also actually have to have some job skills.

Some say people are hard to work on. I'd say you just need to work on stupid people.

Panel 5:
Right: I'm feeling so confident now. I'm going to go bet my life savings that I'm right about horse-drawn NFT printers being the next big thing.
Left: You're so brilliant. You can't possibly be wrong.

Panel 6:
(caption bar: later...)
Right: I hate you. You told me it couldn't go wrong. It did. Now I have no money and 600k in debt.
Left: You're so brilliant. There's no way it was your fault.
Right: Okay, well, my life has been made objectively worse by the lies you told me, but now I want to believe you saying it's not my fault, so I love you again. By the way, I have a new idea. I think I can farm gold by getting drunk and burying it in a field. Should I borrow money from a mafia loan shark to try to start that business?
Left: You're so brilliant. You can't possibly be wrong.

If you don't have NPD, I think you should avoid using that word. You can say "person with NPD" instead.

A man comes to a rabbi and complains about a dispute he is having with another man. He explains his side. The rabbi listens and says, “You are right.”
Then the other man comes to the rabbi and gives his side of the story. The rabbi listens and says, “You are right.”
The rabbi's wife, who has been listening, says: “But they can't both be right!” The rabbi considers this and says: “You are right, too.”

That's fair. I changed it to a term I think more accurately expresses the state of the venture capitalists who are particularly susceptible to flattery.

Thanks! You're woke!

Also astrologers

Aw, you flatter me 🥰