Re: politeness in posting

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 07:14:33 MDT


It appears as if Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
|
|"The tactful way," Rod said quietly, "the polite way to disagree with the
|Senator would be to say, 'That turns out not to be the case.'"

I used to simply point out "You are in error.", but lately various persons
have pointed out that one must pamper the egos of humans and not state facts
too directly.

So now I use "There exists different opinions on that." instead.



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