Re:No AI Slop: A Manifesto
by mapontosevenths on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:45AM
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> If this isn't how you sell it, then there's no way to sell it. T
I disagree. Nothing you said is wrong, really, but like most good things in society change requires cooperation. To get that you have to consider other peoples perspectives. Language is for communication. So what are we trying to communicate and how do we do it effectively?
First decide who it is you're trying to convince, and then target the message that they need to hear. Don't lie, just choose the most compelling argument for that audience. People have a finite amount of attention and won't sit through a lecture that's clearly not meant for their ears.
For example, we might rephrase it in terms of reliability when talking to engineers, or into the business advantages of being able to introduce new features faster when humans understand the codebase for an executive. Just figure out who it is that needs convincing the most, and explain to them why it benefits them.
Right now this is just rabble rousing. It feels like the goal is to convince those who are already angry that they should be even angrier. To what purpose though? Everyone is angry, and the world doesn't need more. What it needs is to channel that anger into something useful or, more productively, to start helping to convince those who aren't already.
I disagree. Nothing you said is wrong, really, but like most good things in society change requires cooperation. To get that you have to consider other peoples perspectives. Language is for communication. So what are we trying to communicate and how do we do it effectively?
First decide who it is you're trying to convince, and then target the message that they need to hear. Don't lie, just choose the most compelling argument for that audience. People have a finite amount of attention and won't sit through a lecture that's clearly not meant for their ears.
For example, we might rephrase it in terms of reliability when talking to engineers, or into the business advantages of being able to introduce new features faster when humans understand the codebase for an executive. Just figure out who it is that needs convincing the most, and explain to them why it benefits them.
Right now this is just rabble rousing. It feels like the goal is to convince those who are already angry that they should be even angrier. To what purpose though? Everyone is angry, and the world doesn't need more. What it needs is to channel that anger into something useful or, more productively, to start helping to convince those who aren't already.