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MartinB comments on How best to show dying is bad - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Zvi 08 March 2011 03:18PM

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Comment author: MartinB 10 March 2011 08:44:59PM 2 points [-]

What I saw was a friendly matching of wits, in which of course your father wants to win. If you seriously want to change his mind you may need to have a heart-to-heart

It took me at least two decades to realize that there are in deed these different modes of communication. At first glance it sounds so very stupid that this even happens.