Possibly I’m erroneously assuming that the vacuum-cleaner salesman voice is suboptimal because it annoys me.
I read an interview with a spammer, who said he experimented with different message types, and switched to writing spam in all uppercase with exclamation points because it got more positive responses.
Possibly, good mass-market salesmen optimize to sell to stupid people, whether what they are selling is good or bad.
Yes, I’ve talked to at least one person who worked as a car salesperson for a while and is surprisingly intelligent for that job. Their take was essentially that for a lot of people the obvious salesmany tactics work. Moreover, they asserted that the people who they don’t work on are also generally people where even more polite tactics often won’t work on, so one isn’t losing that much.
I don’t know how much this applies to cars, but I’d suspect that this applies even more to spamming.
Whether this applies to the NLP people is probably to some extent whether the NLP people are trying to attract smart critical thinkers or trying to attract the general population. I don’t know enough about their goals to accurately speculate.
Possibly I’m erroneously assuming that the vacuum-cleaner salesman voice is suboptimal because it annoys me.
I read an interview with a spammer, who said he experimented with different message types, and switched to writing spam in all uppercase with exclamation points because it got more positive responses.
Possibly, good mass-market salesmen optimize to sell to stupid people, whether what they are selling is good or bad.
Yes, I’ve talked to at least one person who worked as a car salesperson for a while and is surprisingly intelligent for that job. Their take was essentially that for a lot of people the obvious salesmany tactics work. Moreover, they asserted that the people who they don’t work on are also generally people where even more polite tactics often won’t work on, so one isn’t losing that much.
I don’t know how much this applies to cars, but I’d suspect that this applies even more to spamming.
Whether this applies to the NLP people is probably to some extent whether the NLP people are trying to attract smart critical thinkers or trying to attract the general population. I don’t know enough about their goals to accurately speculate.