well, in this example, you are applying a pattern of “What specific practical difference do you envision”, and so I would consider you to be putting high probability on that being a good question. I would prefer you simply guess, describe your best guess, and if it’s wrong, I can then describe the correction. you having an internal autocomplete for me would lower the ratio of wasted communication between us for straightforward shannon reasons, and my intuitive model of human brains predicts you have it already. and so in the original claim, I was saying that you seem to have frameworks that prescribe behaviors like “what practical difference”, which are things like—at a guess—“if a suggestion isn’t specific enough to be sure I’ve interpreted correctly, ask for clarification”. I do that sometimes, but you do it more. and there are many more things like this, the more general pattern is my point.
anyway gonna follow my own instructions and cut this off here. if you aren’t able to extract useful bits from it, such as by guessing how I’d have answered if we kept going, then oh well.
I would prefer you simply guess, describe your best guess, and if it’s wrong, I can then describe the correction. you having an internal autocomplete for me would lower the ratio of wasted communication between us for straightforward shannon reasons, and my intuitive model of human brains predicts you have it already.
I see… well, maybe it will not surprise you to learn that, based on long and much-repeated experience, I consider that approach to be vastly inferior. In my experience, it is impossible for me to guess what anyone means, and also it is impossible for anyone else to guess what I mean. (Perhaps it is possible for other people to guess what other people mean, but what I have observed leads me to strongly doubt that, too.) Trying to do this impossible thing reliably leads to much more wasted communication. Asking is far, far superior.
In short, it is not that I haven’t considered doing things in the way that you suggest. I have considered it, and tried it, and had it tried on me, many times. My conclusion has been that it’s impossible to succeed and a very bad idea to try.
well, in this example, you are applying a pattern of “What specific practical difference do you envision”, and so I would consider you to be putting high probability on that being a good question. I would prefer you simply guess, describe your best guess, and if it’s wrong, I can then describe the correction. you having an internal autocomplete for me would lower the ratio of wasted communication between us for straightforward shannon reasons, and my intuitive model of human brains predicts you have it already. and so in the original claim, I was saying that you seem to have frameworks that prescribe behaviors like “what practical difference”, which are things like—at a guess—“if a suggestion isn’t specific enough to be sure I’ve interpreted correctly, ask for clarification”. I do that sometimes, but you do it more. and there are many more things like this, the more general pattern is my point.
anyway gonna follow my own instructions and cut this off here. if you aren’t able to extract useful bits from it, such as by guessing how I’d have answered if we kept going, then oh well.
I see… well, maybe it will not surprise you to learn that, based on long and much-repeated experience, I consider that approach to be vastly inferior. In my experience, it is impossible for me to guess what anyone means, and also it is impossible for anyone else to guess what I mean. (Perhaps it is possible for other people to guess what other people mean, but what I have observed leads me to strongly doubt that, too.) Trying to do this impossible thing reliably leads to much more wasted communication. Asking is far, far superior.
In short, it is not that I haven’t considered doing things in the way that you suggest. I have considered it, and tried it, and had it tried on me, many times. My conclusion has been that it’s impossible to succeed and a very bad idea to try.