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That game is so old it uses ATI Radeon technilogy
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That game is so old it uses ATI Radeon Technilogy.
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Technical physcology

A framework or a narrative style to explain phsycology using system thinking terms.
Overfit is a computer science concept brought to Technical physcology that can eplain malicious mental adaptations. Such as avoidant personality disorder, narcistic personality disorder etc.
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Technicalsplaining

A form of gaslighting where the perpetrator masks ideological defense or dismissal as a “technical,” “neutral,” or “unbiased” explanation. By claiming to offer merely technical clarifications, the speaker frames their own position as objective reality while dismissing any alternative as emotional, uninformed, or ideologically compromised. Technicalsplaining is common in debates about economic marginalism, neoliberalism, or platform policy: a critic of wage stagnation is met with a lecture on “supply‑and‑demand fundamentals,” presented as if it were pure physics rather than a contested theory. The goal is to shut down critique by making it seem naive in the face of “technical” truth.
Example: “When she questioned why wages hadn’t kept up with productivity, he gave her a lecture on marginal productivity theory as if it were a law of nature—technicalsplaining, using the mask of technical neutrality to defend an ideology.”
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Technicallighting

A digitallighting tactic that weaponizes technical language to disorient and discredit a target. The perpetrator floods the conversation with jargon, pseudo‑precise metrics, or selective data, then accuses the target of “not understanding” when they struggle to respond. The goal is to make the target appear incompetent while the abuser plays the role of the calm, technically proficient expert. Technicallighting often appears in debates about economics, climate policy, or platform algorithms—anywhere where real complexity can be used to create confusion and exhaust opposition.
Example: “He buried her in acronyms, regression coefficients, and citation titles she’d never seen. When she asked for plain language, he said ‘if you can’t follow basic economics, why are you arguing?’ Technicallighting: using expertise as a cudgel.”
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Technicalpost

A goalpost‑moving tactic that shifts the criteria for acceptable discussion to impossibly technical standards. The perpetrator declares that only those who can engage with highly specialized data, academic papers, or formal models are qualified to speak, thereby excluding the target from the conversation. If the target attempts to meet the technical demand, the standard is raised further—a new field of expertise, a more obscure dataset, a more advanced methodology. Technicalpost effectively weaponizes the very idea of technical competence to silence dissent without engaging its substance.
Example: “She cited a widely respected economist; he said that economist’s work was outdated. She cited newer work; he said it wasn’t peer‑reviewed. When she provided peer‑reviewed papers, he said they didn’t use the right methodology. Technicalpost: moving the goalposts so that no evidence can ever be enough.”
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Technicallighting

A form of gaslighting that occurs in technical, academic, or scientific debates, where one party uses jargon, credentialism, or selective citation to make the other doubt their own understanding or sanity. The technicallighter may present a fringe school (e.g., Austrian economics) as “the real science,” dismiss mainstream consensus as “ideological,” and ridicule opponents as “uneducated” or “brainwashed.” They shift goalposts, demand impossible proof, and claim that any disagreement comes from a lack of expertise—not from evidence. Technicallighting turns technical discourse into a weapon of confusion and intimidation.
Example: “The Austrian economist insisted that mainstream macroeconomics was ‘mathematical fiction’ and that anyone who disagreed simply didn’t understand ‘real economics’—technicallighting, using jargon to cloak fringe views in authority.”
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