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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24426937

Things about the person that are legitimately unique and special to you

Things that affect how much you know or infer about the person, such as how much you interact with or think about the person

Being aware of the second factor could help you try to know more people and reduce the chance of hallucinated differentness or specialness of people.

I did not think about this at all before today.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is deeply creepy

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is all I can think of:

Maybe the post doesn't make it clear enough that my discomfort was about the situation I perceived myself to be facing, not about the fact that the girl had a boyfriend.
Maybe it's easy to misinterpret the use of the phrase "the McDonald's girl" as meaning that some events in this situation took place at McDonald's instead of at school.
Maybe you think that sending the thing with the message "I'm trying to impress you" was creepy. Until now, I haven't suspected this possibility. If it's true, then I want to know specific rules that it violated, since that's the level of simplicity being pursued in Project Pansystellar. (Either way, the probability of doing things like this might be naturally reduced by the exploration goal)

Edit: also I realized I forgot to mention that I asked before sitting at the table

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