Think about how ridiculous your comment must sound to them.
People expressing disagreement with someone who is confident that they are right and is secure in their own status is going to be perceived by said high status person as foolish (or as an enemy to be crushed). This doesn’t mean you should never do so, merely that you will lose the goodwill of the person being criticized if you choose to do so.
Some of those people have been researching AI for decades, wrote hundreds of papers that have been cited many thousands of times.
Note that Grognor gave here a direction of his update based on this conversation. Even if he takes the status of Wang as overwhelmingly strong evidence of the correctness of his position it doesn’t mean that the direction of the update based on this particular piece of additional information should not be ‘down’. In fact, the more respect Grognor had for the speaker’s position prior to hearing him speak, the easier it is for the words to require a downward update. If there wasn’t already respect in place the new information wouldn’t be surprising.
That you just assume that they must be stupid because they disagree with you seems incredible arrogant.
He didn’t do that. Or, at least, Grognor’s comment doesn’t indicate that he did that. He saw a problem of basic logic in the arguments presented and took that as evidence against the conclusion. If Grognor could not do that it would be essentially pointless for him to evaluate the arguments at all.
People expressing disagreement with someone who is confident that they are right and is secure in their own status is going to be perceived by said high status person as foolish (or as an enemy to be crushed). This doesn’t mean you should never do so, merely that you will lose the goodwill of the person being criticized if you choose to do so.
Note that Grognor gave here a direction of his update based on this conversation. Even if he takes the status of Wang as overwhelmingly strong evidence of the correctness of his position it doesn’t mean that the direction of the update based on this particular piece of additional information should not be ‘down’. In fact, the more respect Grognor had for the speaker’s position prior to hearing him speak, the easier it is for the words to require a downward update. If there wasn’t already respect in place the new information wouldn’t be surprising.
He didn’t do that. Or, at least, Grognor’s comment doesn’t indicate that he did that. He saw a problem of basic logic in the arguments presented and took that as evidence against the conclusion. If Grognor could not do that it would be essentially pointless for him to evaluate the arguments at all.