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This seems like a recursion nightmare for overthinkers like me.
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.