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Originally Posted by johndallman
And here are some more draft techniques for this family:
<Specific person> (Lip Reading). This lets you buy up skill for application to a individual person. As for the equivalent techniques for Body Language and Detect Lies, this is useful for trying to analyse the behaviour of powerful people when you have limited sources of information.
<Specific item (Machinist). This lets you buy up skill for making a specific item. This is often useful for items invented at your current TL; making items that appeared at lower TLs tends to be fairly routine.
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Compared to the myriads of people and devices, these two sound like Hyperspecialization to me (I know this opinion of mine is subject to controversy / not to be taken for granted).