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It's very difficult to convince people who aren't interested in being convinced. There are too many people out there with a different, maybe wrong, opinion. Wh
by rifung 9y ago
It's very difficult to convince people who aren't interested in being convinced. There are too many people out there with a different, maybe wrong, opinion.
Why waste your time with those who don't seem genuinely interested in opposing evidence?
I didn't find his tone aggressive but he didn't at all seem interested in having a discussion. If I remember correctly he didn't rebuke any opposing points, let alone present them, which makes me think he didn't bother looking for them.
It's like hey I have this point I want you to listen to but I'm not even going to make an attempt to look up answers and instead force you to listen to me before I listen to you. It's like trying to answer someone's question without even understanding what they're asking, which I am sad to say I have seen far too often at Google.
- nicolashahn 9y agoYou have to remember that this was a rough memo that he never meant to spread as widely as it has been. More like "here's some ideas I've been kicking around and some evidence for them, someone want to take a look and see what I'm missing or mistaken about?" This was originally just posted to the Google Skeptics group, with the implication that it would be (fairly) contested and debated. People keep presenting it as a "manifesto" but that's a term that Gizmodo used, not him. I really would like to have seen what would have come from it being fairly critiqued by his peers and edited until it was presentable to the public (if that's even possible).