Feigned Incompetence Manipulation
The cluster discusses how cunning or malicious individuals pretend to be incompetent or stupid to deceive and exploit others, countering ideas like Hanlon's Razor by highlighting manipulation tactics in social and business contexts.
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Ah, so it's a trick to exploit people's unreasoning instincts to your own ends. Cool!
You should be aware that many malicious people feign incompetence when caught.
Or he is great in manipulating people so it's hard to point at a single proving example
Smart people can get away with tricks like that.
Sufficiently advanced malice often pretends to be stupidity, to deliberately exploit the tendency people have to view the world as you describe.
Heh. Cunning people exploit the world. Smart people wind up working for cunning people.
Careful about it through. People who use those trics too apparently easily make impression of untrustworthy manipulator.
Making people think you're smarter than you are. That's about it.
More like, they think that deceiving people for profit is genius.
Because people have great skill in exploiting other people as well.