Yeah, if you want to be heard, it certainly helps to be a loudmouth. You can do it in different ways though. Eliezer’s trick of being infuriatingly certain works as well or better than Ron’s rudeness.
On the other hand, I feel that being a loudmouth can sometimes hurt your ability to do interesting intellectual work. For that purpose Wei’s communication style is the best I know, and I’ve adopted it wholeheartedly.
Yeah, if you want to be heard, it certainly helps to be a loudmouth. You can do it in different ways though. Eliezer’s trick of being infuriatingly certain works as well or better than Ron’s rudeness.
On the other hand, I feel that being a loudmouth can sometimes hurt your ability to do interesting intellectual work. For that purpose Wei’s communication style is the best I know, and I’ve adopted it wholeheartedly.