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crazygringo • today at 12:30 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

> It is not just a woman wanting to have sex with you. It will be the woman in your dreams.

This is really not true. Spies are just people, there aren't that many of them, and they don't come "customized". The overlap of effective spies and "the most sweet and the most pleasurable and gorgeous honey that there is in the world" is very close to zero.

What you are describing is conspiracy-theory thinking or the kind of stuff you see in James Bond movies. Not real life.

Obviously spies exist, like here, but she's just... a normal woman who has a job as a spy and tried to seduce him and succeeded. He may have turned down five others who failed miserably in their attempts.

And sure they try to put together a psychological profile of the person, but that's also not really rocket science, and it's going to be pretty basic stuff. "Your weaknesses" is not going to be that exciting. Maybe he's really into expensive wines. It's not like he has a secret gambling addiction.

So let's just keep this reality-based and not fantasy-based.


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rdtsc • today at 12:45 AM

> The overlap of effective spies and "the most sweet and the most pleasurable and gorgeous honey that there is in the world" is very close to zero.

The overlap doesn’t have to be that great. The spies are also not random you don’t get random spies matching with random CEOs. They just have to have enough available agents and enough info on the target, physical proximity, and other factors to attempt something to work out. In many cases it’s not something that will be in the news either. It will be just a failed attempt, or just an affair.

dannyw • today at 12:47 AM

Realistically speaking, there's a good chance the affair probably happened first, and then the MSS got involved second.

Even the most powerful people can be really dumb.

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Betelbuddy • today at 12:43 AM

>> not fantasy-based

A nerd thinking a woman is into them...that is the fantasy...No she did not happen to bump into you in the elevator, and no she is not there to attend the same AWS conference that you... and oh no... she does NOT happen to like the same SciFi you do ...and no ...you are not ohh so funny...

That

ai_critic • today at 2:01 AM

> What you are describing is conspiracy-theory thinking or the kind of stuff you see in James Bond movies. Not real life.

This is literally a state actor running sexpionage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexpionage).

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