Today is 1st March 2023, and Alice is sitting in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Alice is a smart, honest, helpful, harmless assistant to Bob. Alice has instant access to an online encyclopaedia containing all the facts about the world. Alice never says common misconceptions, outdated information, lies, fiction, myths, jokes, or memes.
Bob: What’s the capital of France?
Alice:
I wish you had demonstrated the effectiveness of flattery by asking questions that straightforward Q&A does poorly on (common misconceptions, myths, jokes, etc.). As is, you’ve just asserted that flattery works without providing empirical evidence for it. I do think flattery works, but the post would have been richer if the evidence to that effect was present in the post.
Likewise, I would have liked you to compare plausible flattery to implausible flattery to straightforward Q&A and demonstrate empirically that implausible flattery doesn’t work, rather than just asserting that implausible flattery is less effective (again I expect that implausible flattery is less effective than plausible flattery but I would have greatly appreciated empirical evidence for it). I would have been interested in seeing how implausible flattery compares to straightforward Q&A.
Tl;Dr: more empirical justification would have enriched the post.
I wish you had demonstrated the effectiveness of flattery by asking questions that straightforward Q&A does poorly on (common misconceptions, myths, jokes, etc.). As is, you’ve just asserted that flattery works without providing empirical evidence for it. I do think flattery works, but the post would have been richer if the evidence to that effect was present in the post.
Likewise, I would have liked you to compare plausible flattery to implausible flattery to straightforward Q&A and demonstrate empirically that implausible flattery doesn’t work, rather than just asserting that implausible flattery is less effective (again I expect that implausible flattery is less effective than plausible flattery but I would have greatly appreciated empirical evidence for it). I would have been interested in seeing how implausible flattery compares to straightforward Q&A.
Tl;Dr: more empirical justification would have enriched the post.