I agree with your point. Mine was about the word doublespeak for this, which I think it's not - it's a lie in effect, but I think it is something like what you say, for which I don't know a term of. A bunch of sentences that are said in a complete disregard for truths and untruths; instead they are supposed to get you to believe something.

This also kinda fits the profile of Altman that I'm getting from what I have seen - admittedly without looking in-depth. A person who is on surface a pathological liar, but in fact in a closer look he just says things. They just _happen_ to be complete lies, because that's what you need to do to achieve the goal in the set of circumstances. It's just that because it's as morally objectionable as outright lying, some people would pause and think before doing it, while he seems to just have no qualms at all.

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danparsonson 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah, got it. Maybe 'gaslighting' cuts more to the point?

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dTal an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The word I have heard is "bullshitting". Lies at least orient themselves with regard to the truth, bullshit floats free

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3form an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I think gaslighting is more sinister and deliberate, but it's in a similar spectrum of manipulative behavior. Perhaps, as his statements are less filled with the style of Musk's bravado on topic of FSD, and they feel overall mid, I can propose MID: Manipulative-Impulsive Disorder?

	▲	danparsonson an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's how I shall think of it from now on ^^