I remember that one time I learned man was mortal from all my studying, leading me to carry poison around but put it at maximum arms length whenever I pour it into a glass

And my wife staring back at me like Wesley did

Luckily my model of other people’s model of me has lost enough genuine character that it’s more of a trope so my model of someone else’s model of me has like 3 models that apply to everyone and that’s so reductive I ignore them.

Oh, stay away from semioticians, then.

Semiosis diagrams are like trypophobia bait memes but specifically for information scientists.

I vaguely remember from grad school that “copresence heuristics” were a workable solution, but I don’t remember the details.

Basically, the big circle is what you think of them, and the small circle is what you believe they think of you.

Alice and Bob are names of User A and B in cyber security textbooks I think

You have a model of every person you know in your head and you have a model of how those other people see you in your head. The way you interact (or interface) with other people is based on those models, i.e. how you think they are ans how you think they would respond and how you think they see you.

How we percieve others vs how others perceive us perceiving them

And vice versa