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   What #Trump and #Musk are doing is called a #DecapitationStrike: #DamagingGovernment and #Economies so the #Wreckage can be sorted through and picked up at a #FireSale for #PenniesOnTheDollar

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     May a ask the source of this?--I wrote a thread on this some while back.

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     #ShortDarkTriad #Narcissists #DecapitationStrike

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     @HistoPol This was the culmination of a back and forth discussion I was having with Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral/Le Chat, and GROK. I finally got them to recognize that looking at Musk and Trump's disruptive actions through the lens of #ShortDarkTriad #Narcissism makes a great deal of sense.

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     @HistoPol Point me to your thread. I would like to read it.

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     I'd be happy to oblige, but...
     Alas, the thread is too old by now and has been deleted by the server admins. :(

     I only found a minor reference of a later date to the original article I had found:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112767351744675253

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     @HistoPol My masters is in Psychometrics/Statistics/Measurement. I have maintained for over several years, now, that Trump and Musk both as well as several in the GOP ChaosCaucus are #SD3 personalities.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     Hm, interesting approach.
     #AI is a secondary field of focus for me, but to my knowledge, LLM's cannot "recognize" anything, as they lack self-awareness. ;)

     But I guess I know what you mean.

     What is SHORTDarkTriad [Narcicissm]?

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     (I do not hold any psychological or mathematical degrees, BTW.)

     I totally agree, OFC.

     What are #SD3 personalities, precisely? Is there a difference to #DarkTriads?

     What's more, Trump has shown to be a #DarkTetrad, as he definitely has been exhibiting a sadist streak on top of the other 3, from my point of view.

     I have been watching Musk for many years, too. His personal life has not been of principal interest to me so far. I am not aware of a sadist streak in him.

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     @HistoPol In your Thread I think you presented a more recent latent factor term #DarkTetrad. I used an older term #DarkTriad

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     @HistoPol I left Merck because a new VP of Marketing pulled the funding for my AI project back in the 90's/00's. AI, at its core, is a #BayesianNet and other statistical structures. AI can count words a person uses in a Text or a Speech or an Interview. It's an indirect way of psychometric analysis.

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     @HistoPol Again, the construct I used did not include #Sadism--your added 4th dimension. #SD3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad#:~:text=High%20scores%20in%20these%20traits,course%20of%20an%20individual%27s%20life.

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     No, not quite. - If you check into the #Atlantic article, a #DarkTriad becomes a #DarkTetrad if a person also is a #Sadist, too.

     In other words, a #DarkTriad will be a subset of a #DarkTetrad, but not all #DarkTriads (quite a few, actually) will be #DarkTetrads, too. ,)

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     @HistoPol Ok. Maybe. The point is the US is experiencing leadership which has a dark core of personality traits. #SD3 tend to find other individuals like themselves, surround themselves with others, and manipulate them to their selfish ends. They cause wreckage. The wreckage is intentional because they take advantage of the #Chaos. They see the world as a #GameToWin.

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     @HistoPol From my corporate experiences, the higher one goes up the #CSuiteLadder, the more one generally finds #SD3 personalities. The same is true in #Religion. Trump is the first #SD3President.

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     #DarkTriads

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     Still not sure what the abbreviation #SD3 stands for, but you seem to be using it synonymously for #DarkTriad.

     An expert on #China recently pointed me to this key figure in history:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heshen

     He seems to have been the most corrupt #DarkTriad in history--so far.

     Your conclusion is age-old wisdom for the Chinese. A friend of mine recently mentioned this:

     https://mastodon.net2o.de/@forthy42/113952069210198443

     At...

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     #DarkTriads

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     ...the Chinese court of the time, would-be official had to face hard tests designed by #Confucious to sort out the #DarkTriads, as we would call them today.

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     I can agree with this stance--in particular as it seems to be the same kind of stance that #Confucius took in ancient #China (see my previous reply). ;)

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     @HistoPol #Short #Dark #3Triad #SD3

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     @HistoPol These personalities are not a new phenomenon. These behaviors have #SurvivalAdvantages and probably have a sizeable genetic component.

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     #DarkTriads / #DarkTetrads articles

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     "Yes, one in fourteen is a #dark
     Dark Triads counted for about one in 14 people [7%] in an international population 1) sample, a proportion that means all of us will meet them on a regular basis in love, in work, in politics, and—most obviously—on social media. " 2)

     2)
     https://archive.md/NjmrS#selection-969.50-973.144

     "However, in a third sample of U.S. Senators (N = 143), based on...

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     #DarkTriads / #DarkTetrads articles

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     ...observational data, the dark subtype was most prevalent and associated with longer tenure in political office, though less legislative success. Results suggest that human nature reflects both light and dark features, serving affiliative (pro-social) and dominance (pro-self) functions, 👉 with subtype prevalence varying considerably based on profession."👈 1)

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     1)
     https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188692030310X

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     #DarkTriads / #DarkTetrads articles

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     ...--> see also the titles of the references below "Dark Tetrads...":

     "Examining the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) Across Models, Correlates, and Gender"

     "The Dark is Rising: Contrasting the Dark Triad and Light Triad on Measures of Political Ambition and Participation"

     "The tangled webs we wreak: Examining the structure of aggressive personality using psychometric networks"

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     @HistoPol Back at ya. I remember reading these Forbes articles some time ago--about when all hell started to break loose.
     https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2019/06/16/know-the-dark-triad-to-prevent-workplace-chaos/
     https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2018/09/27/narcissist-psychopath-or-egoist-the-dark-personality-traits-may-all-intertwine/