Same with cons - there's a great scene in the *Leverage: Redemption* heist show where an experienced con-artist explains to a novice that the most convincing hustle is the one where you wait for the mark to tell *you* what they think you're doing, then run with it (scambaiters and other skeptics will recognize this as a relative of the "cold reading," where a "psychic" uses your own confirmations to flesh out their predictions).
8/
Cory Doctorow /
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2024-05-27 16:53:32
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