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Sales people were never artists. Cold calling is not art.
by pseudalopex 2y ago
Sales people were never artists. Cold calling is not art.
- johnnyanmac 2y agocold calling isn't an art, but smooth talking/networking is. There's no exact science to making people feel good and wanting to form a relationship with you (despite centuries of literature claiming that there is).
- pseudalopex 2y agoArt and an art have different meanings.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoBased on the response upstream, I assume they were talking about the latter. There's no art to door to door sales reading a boilerplate. There is an art to researching a customer and curating a proper response to make them feel good.
- pseudalopex 2y agoThey said artists. Artists means people who make art commonly. Not everyone with a non scientific skill. The word was incorrect no matter what they meant.
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- johnnyanmac 2y agoI don't always have perfect grammar on Hacker News either. Charitable interpretation.
- Jensson 2y agoProgramming and just about every other job is an art as well with that argument. If we aren't allowed to automate away that then we aren't allowed to automate anything.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoIt'll all vary based on what and who is automated. I'm sure there'd be less(but non-zero) fuss if we were trying to automate plumbing. I'm sure there'd be entire riots over trying to automate professional sports leagues. I'd say the art industry is somewhere in-between because of 1. Being a traditionally disrespected but non-trivial skill to acquire 2. A skill valuable for advertisement (good art -> pretty ads -> more money 3. A valuable skill, but not one many industries need full time work from 4. Due to #1, a "vulnerable" industry. There won't be too many millionaire artists to fight back against the AI Overlords compared to, say, Politicians or businessesmen. But it's not like I have any say on who or what gets affected.
- taneq 2y agoIf it's not an art then if we make the best example of something, what would that example be the state of?
- fennecbutt 2y agoOP is wrong anyway. Everything is art. Art is about interpretation not determinism.