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My wife makes an living asking people for things. She writes like the latter example. I find myself continuously frustrated by people. She loves them. I find t

My wife makes an living asking people for things. She writes like the latter example. I find myself continuously frustrated by people. She loves them. I find that I'm constantly rejected when suggesting things, she isn't. I'm with you, but I think we're wrong.

sirspacey 3y ago
This is it. This is why I think AI is a better writer than I am.
mega_dingus 3y ago
I was talking to somebody who worked HR at a multi-disciplinary shop, and she said you could always identify the emails coming from programmers It was a complaint, definitely not a compliment. She said programmers listed things out in bullet points and bluntly to-the-point. She complained they were dry, intimidating, and she hated dealing with them I still write concisely and with bullet points, when writing to other programmers. But I now expand things when talking to everybody else. And I've found I get better responses
- croon 3y ago
  If the HR person wanted to recruit programmers, I feel like that's a feature.
- ungamedplayer 3y ago
  I'm kinda glad, because I hate emails coming from hr.
kristjansson 3y ago
It shouldn't be terribly surprising that humans incorporate signals beyond pure denotational content of message? Text is a pretty low-bandwidth channel, so we infer as much meaning as possible from the bits of information we receive. All the stylistic choices encode additional information about the sender; part of one's job as an effective communicator is evaluating the effect of all those choices and adapting the entire message (not just its content) to convey the intended impression (not just the meaning). Incidentally, this is why AI-writing isn't necessarily better communication. The robot can help translate intentions into prose, but it can't decide what one should actually intend to say.
anon373839 3y ago
This reminds me of Craigslist. When I get a response that’s written in a terse and grammatically incorrect style, I ignore it. Experience tells me these transactions don’t tend to go well.

sirspacey 3y ago

This is it. This is why I think AI is a better writer than I am.

mega_dingus 3y ago

I was talking to somebody who worked HR at a multi-disciplinary shop, and she said you could always identify the emails coming from programmers It was a complaint, definitely not a compliment. She said programmers listed things out in bullet points and bluntly to-the-point. She complained they were dry, intimidating, and she hated dealing with them I still write concisely and with bullet points, when writing to other programmers. But I now expand things when talking to everybody else. And I've found I get better responses

croon 3y ago
If the HR person wanted to recruit programmers, I feel like that's a feature.
ungamedplayer 3y ago
I'm kinda glad, because I hate emails coming from hr.

kristjansson 3y ago

It shouldn't be terribly surprising that humans incorporate signals beyond pure denotational content of message? Text is a pretty low-bandwidth channel, so we infer as much meaning as possible from the bits of information we receive. All the stylistic choices encode additional information about the sender; part of one's job as an effective communicator is evaluating the effect of all those choices and adapting the entire message (not just its content) to convey the intended impression (not just the meaning). Incidentally, this is why AI-writing isn't necessarily better communication. The robot can help translate intentions into prose, but it can't decide what one should actually intend to say.

anon373839 3y ago

This reminds me of Craigslist. When I get a response that’s written in a terse and grammatically incorrect style, I ignore it. Experience tells me these transactions don’t tend to go well.