[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  yung macro 年轻的宏观 [@apralky](/creator/twitter/apralky) on x 8762 followers Created: 2025-07-25 20:26:14 UTC nuclear grade powermaxxing technique, I wouldn't opensource this if I weren't X pints down so listen carefully-- > you need to be describing them/him/her. the screenshots are obviously from the female gaze but this generalizes to platonic power dynamics, for example: it was a common ritual among the two for Kissinger to spend hours in Nixon's office re-telling a variety of the day's affairs repeatedly and at length, with Nixon as the main character. for the entire evening, Kissinger would describe in detail precisely what great things the President had said earlier, precisely the sorts of reactions these things had elicited from those on the other side, precisely the ways in which the president had aurafarmed in this or that aspect and he made sure to use A LOT OF SPECIFIC ADJECTIVES and robust thought chains for the ways in which the president was this way or that way similarly, when sama compliments someone, he always makes sure to add some extra bits of information that carry at least some surprise (as long as this surprise allegedly relates to the subject we would characterize it as "descriptive") to an average midtier linkedinmaxxed flatterer, "Satya is a great CEO" to sama "Satya is a great CEO and more importantly human being and understands stakes of AGI and yada yada yada..." he does the same describing colleagues Ilya, Mira, and more recently US politicians, where he makes very specific and descriptive compliments, often using direct quotations that he found "particularly meaningful" this is mainly what makes a potent flatterer -- the ability to generate detailed and targeted compliments, not an excess of them! the female gaze below is a good litmus test for whether the flattery you're about to conduct is the good kind or the bad kind -- if it would elicit a positive reaction in a romantic context such as below, then it will likely also help you in a platonic power dynamic if not, then you are just pathetic vassal maxxing and need to stop as you progress in the status hierarchy people start to have increasingly complex insecurities, so it's hard to fit the descriptions in such a way that addresses them this is why good therapists have such a high market price, why there exist notorious charismamaxxers in upper echelons, and so forth basically > when complimenting someone it seems that you must always imagine them answering back "you don't mean that" and you're constantly arguing with that invisible brick wall, explaining in detail exactly what makes you think such and such of them -- details, proofs, hypotheticals, analogies... > the compliment must obviously be directed at allaying an insecurity or satisfying a striving ... this quite parsimoniously collapses into something the normies can't quite explain, but yearn for -- "being described" (they obviously don't want to be described in a mundane drivers license fashion, they want what I explained above, but this is as far as their NPC brain affords them to communicate it...)  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [ritual](/topic/ritual) [Post Link](https://x.com/apralky/status/1948842248193384953)
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yung macro 年轻的宏观 @apralky on x 8762 followers
Created: 2025-07-25 20:26:14 UTC
nuclear grade powermaxxing technique, I wouldn't opensource this if I weren't X pints down so listen carefully--
you need to be describing them/him/her.
the screenshots are obviously from the female gaze but this generalizes to platonic power dynamics, for example:
it was a common ritual among the two for Kissinger to spend hours in Nixon's office re-telling a variety of the day's affairs repeatedly and at length, with Nixon as the main character.
for the entire evening, Kissinger would describe in detail precisely what great things the President had said earlier, precisely the sorts of reactions these things had elicited from those on the other side, precisely the ways in which the president had aurafarmed in this or that aspect and he made sure to use A LOT OF SPECIFIC ADJECTIVES and robust thought chains for the ways in which the president was this way or that way
similarly, when sama compliments someone, he always makes sure to add some extra bits of information that carry at least some surprise (as long as this surprise allegedly relates to the subject we would characterize it as "descriptive")
to an average midtier linkedinmaxxed flatterer, "Satya is a great CEO" to sama "Satya is a great CEO and more importantly human being and understands stakes of AGI and yada yada yada..."
he does the same describing colleagues Ilya, Mira, and more recently US politicians, where he makes very specific and descriptive compliments, often using direct quotations that he found "particularly meaningful"
this is mainly what makes a potent flatterer -- the ability to generate detailed and targeted compliments, not an excess of them!
the female gaze below is a good litmus test for whether the flattery you're about to conduct is the good kind or the bad kind -- if it would elicit a positive reaction in a romantic context such as below, then it will likely also help you in a platonic power dynamic
if not, then you are just pathetic vassal maxxing and need to stop
as you progress in the status hierarchy people start to have increasingly complex insecurities, so it's hard to fit the descriptions in such a way that addresses them
this is why good therapists have such a high market price, why there exist notorious charismamaxxers in upper echelons, and so forth
basically
when complimenting someone it seems that you must always imagine them answering back "you don't mean that" and you're constantly arguing with that invisible brick wall, explaining in detail exactly what makes you think such and such of them -- details, proofs, hypotheticals, analogies... the compliment must obviously be directed at allaying an insecurity or satisfying a striving ...
this quite parsimoniously collapses into something the normies can't quite explain, but yearn for -- "being described" (they obviously don't want to be described in a mundane drivers license fashion, they want what I explained above, but this is as far as their NPC brain affords them to communicate it...)
XXXXXX engagements
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