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Please invite all your friends who are sophisticated enough to actually know the names for rhetorical strategies to post more on HN and Reddit. If you can, pos
by onecommentman 6y ago
Please invite all your friends who are sophisticated enough to actually know the names for rhetorical strategies to post more on HN and Reddit.
If you can, post a definition of the terms you use to get more people familiar with the terms and concepts, even if it just boilerplate copypasta.
It warms the cockles of my heart to think we can actually tighten up discussions and get the heart of matters by avoiding rhetorical sillinesses that have been well-known in some circles for over 2000 years.
Maybe a good use for GPT-4+ will be a bot that will identify these rhetorical devices in forum threads.
And yes, it is an ad hominem attack. The basic point may or may not be correct, but the post immediately loses cred for using such a device. OK, now let’s try post hoc ergo propter hoc...