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Have you considered that there are many other people with the same thing to say, who are saying it with the respectful tone you demand, and are being just as po
by igor47 6y ago
Have you considered that there are many other people with the same thing to say, who are saying it with the respectful tone you demand, and are being just as politely and quietly ignored?
- wil421 6y agoYes but I’m not a prominent AI Ethics Academic with ties to 2 of the best colleges in the country, Stanford and MIT. Who also had a very good job at one of the most sought after companies in the world, Google. When she speaks people listen. Nobody listens to wil421.
- robertlagrant 6y agoThat's true. No one, for example, thinks you're their ancestral king, do they? Your majesty.
- dekhn 6y agoI think the simplest thing to be said about messaging and tone is this: If your goal is to say things to convince people to change their behavior, it makes sense to spend some time thinking about how your message and its tone will be perceived, since that has a big impact on how people receive and process the message. Based on a long career of watching people trying to convince the others, attacking people is typically a failing strategy. Instead, learn how to message in a way that is non confrontational, and most importantly, make it clear what is your opinion, versus fact.
- steve_g 6y agoWell, she didn't get ignored. Instead, she got fired. If that was her goal, then she succeeded. If it wasn't, maybe she should have taken a different approach.