The whole article is AI slop.
Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
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Re: Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
#32They never mention they could’ve been wrong. The author assumes they’re always right, but that trying to convince others and argue them to their right side is not valuable. How about: maybe I’m wrong and I didn’t let their ideas influence me. How about: even when I think I’m right, it will be better to calmly kindly discuss, listening as much as talking, not debating or arguing or speaking over them, but attempting t…
ironically, you wont get a reply from the author...
Re: Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
#33Everyone believes they are right until they are shown otherwise. What matters most is not just what you say, but how you say it.
Re: Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
#34They never mention they could’ve been wrong. The author assumes they’re always right, but that trying to convince others and argue them to their right side is not valuable. How about: maybe I’m wrong and I didn’t let their ideas influence me. How about: even when I think I’m right, it will be better to calmly kindly discuss, listening as much as talking, not debating or arguing or speaking over them, but attempting t…
I may be wrong if I am stating an opinion and I cannot be wrong if I stating a fact. Our society, since it got consumed by “social” media, has lost ability to accept facts, everyone doing their own “research” and all that…
Re: Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
#35Do we care that 100% of this writing was generated with AI?
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not AI
The headings style wasn't an immediate giveaway to you? The rules of three in every. short. staccato. paragraph? The X, not Y? The author's writing is wildly different pre-AI.
You could say it flipped their entire logic. Not that it would make sense. But I groaned reading it.
Re: Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
#37LLM-generated slop. Please don't post wastes of our time like this
Re: Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
#38One of the most cancerous developments of our generation is a bunch of people isolating themselves from everyone else, and having their perfect unchallenged audience captured views spread far and wide. On a more personal level, the reason people are frustrated about arguing is because they can’t fully articulate their reasons. They don’t realize it themselves. The older you get and the more practiced you get at argui…
Nowadays, you can even get twenty sycophantic AIs to reinforce your beliefs daily.
Re: Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
#39Another to put it, is how Dan Saks from C++ fame puts it.
> "If you remember one thing, it's this: if you are arguing, you are losing."
Re: Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you believe all points of view are equally valuable?
If they are not (in a small team) you have real problems. Not everyone will be right or be happy, but their pov has value, and equally? More or less.
You aren't answering the question. You are reframing the question so you can give the answer you want, thereby avoiding giving the real answer to the question presented.