> Nobody writes essays in Slack

I 100% write long texts in Slack. I always try to provide as much context as possible when reaching out to someone with a question or request.

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bluGill 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Do you start every response off with "that is a great question"? I don't know any human who does. "that is a great question" is reserved either for really hard questions, or sarcasm. The majority of questions are not great, they are just things the asker needs a simple answer.

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warumdarum 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Introducing AI made markdown tags for conversations so others can only see what the wanty

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21asdffdsa12 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Could add a <vitriol> tag to that - but yes, if that was auto assigned by LLM - i could see that.

Could even add a "Autistism" filter, preventing conversation digressing, filtering out only points that stay on topic and only the <summary>, that way.

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paultopia 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hah, can we do that for recipes next?

	▲	warumdarum 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Conversation add blocker unlocked

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NickDouglas an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exception that proves the rule. You know what context that specific recipient needs from you. GenAI usually doesn't.

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donatj 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly, speaking as a friend, and as someone who's been at this a very long time, maybe stop doing that?

It doesn't foster conversion and I personally find it kind of a hostile/disrespectful communication style. It's much harder to have a proper back and forth with a firehouse than it is a few sentences at a time.

It declares authority "these are the facts" rather than "let's discuss ideas" and if you haven't fully earned that authority it honestly just kind of smells of insecurity.

If there's something in the middle of a wall of text that invalidates something much further down, trying to communicate the problem becomes a pain in the butt. It's just not a good method for discovery.

	▲	strken 33 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Speaking as a random internet stranger, it depends entirely on context. Sending me a message saying "Hi, I'm getting a Frobnizzle not found error" is a waste of both our time. Explain what you're doing so that I can reproduce it, even if it takes a few paragraphs. Maybe send me your user ID so I can check our logs. I don't care if you're declaring "these are the facts" because the facts are what I need to help you. If it's a massive wall of text with a defensive tone during a discussion, yeah, sure, that's bad. Do you work somewhere where that's common?
	▲	gpvos an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Some people, like me, have developed this communication style because it turned out that when they didn't they were very often misunderstood. When properly applied (i.e., not excessively, no actual walls of text), giving appropriate context helps focus the thinking of the receiver in the right direction.
	▲	21asdffdsa12 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The next step is to not talk with each other at all. Just have a LLM that "knows you well" in all your position argue by points and values assigned to the points with the LLM of the opposition. If value alignment exists, a actual conversation may be engaged.