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0 pointsstaticassertion3mo ago0 comments

> Writing a hitpiece with AI because your AI pull request got rejected seems to be the definition of bad faith.

Well, for one thing, it seems like the AI did that autonomously. Regardless, the author of the message said that it was for others - it's not like it was a DM, this was a public message.

> Why should anyone put any more effort into a response than what it took to generate?

For all of the reasons I've brought up already. If your goal is to convince someone of a position then the effort you put in isn't tightly coupled to the effort that your interlocutor put sin.

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LexiMax3mo ago

> For all of the reasons I've brought up already. If your goal is to convince someone of a position then the effort you put in isn't tightly coupled to the effort that your interlocutor put sin.

If someone is demonstrating bad faith, the goal is no longer to convince them of anything, but to convince onlookers. You don't necessarily need to put in a ton of effort to do so, and sometimes - such as in this case - the crowd is already on your side.

Winning the attention economy against a internet troll is a strategy almost as old as the existence of internet trolls themselves.

staticassertionOP3mo ago

I feel like we're talking in circles here. I'll just restate that I think that attempting to convince people of your position is better than not attempting to convince people of your position when your goal is to convince people of your position.

LexiMax3mo ago

The point that we disagree on is what the shape of an appropriate and persuasive response would be. I suspect we might also disagree on who the target of persuasion should be.

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LexiMax3mo ago

> For all of the reasons I've brought up already. If your goal is to convince someone of a position then the effort you put in isn't tightly coupled to the effort that your interlocutor put sin.

Winning the attention economy against a internet troll is a strategy almost as old as the existence of internet trolls themselves.

staticassertionOP3mo ago

LexiMax3mo ago

The point that we disagree on is what the shape of an appropriate and persuasive response would be. I suspect we might also disagree on who the target of persuasion should be.

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