But it still feels that the lesson could be summarized as: “talk like everyone outside the rationalist community does all the time”.
If non-rationalist people knew it all along, there wouldn’t be need to write such books.
On the other hand, I think if average rationalist person tries to say speech from pure inspiration, the result is going to be weird. Like, for example, speech of HJPEV before the first battle. HJPEV got away with this, because he has reputation of Boy Who Lived and he already pulled some awesome shenanigans, so his weird speech got him weirdness points instead of losing them, but it’s not the trick average rationalist should try on first attempt to say inspiring speech.
If non-rationalist people knew it all along, there wouldn’t be need to write such books.
I guess a more careful way to put this would be that they talk like this all the time in private, but when giving a speech, most of them freeze and try to do something else, which is a mistake. They should keeping talking like they usually do, and I suppose the course is teaching them that.
With rationalists, it is a bit more complicated, because talking like you normally do is not the optimal way to do speeches.
If non-rationalist people knew it all along, there wouldn’t be need to write such books.
On the other hand, I think if average rationalist person tries to say speech from pure inspiration, the result is going to be weird. Like, for example, speech of HJPEV before the first battle. HJPEV got away with this, because he has reputation of Boy Who Lived and he already pulled some awesome shenanigans, so his weird speech got him weirdness points instead of losing them, but it’s not the trick average rationalist should try on first attempt to say inspiring speech.
I guess a more careful way to put this would be that they talk like this all the time in private, but when giving a speech, most of them freeze and try to do something else, which is a mistake. They should keeping talking like they usually do, and I suppose the course is teaching them that.
With rationalists, it is a bit more complicated, because talking like you normally do is not the optimal way to do speeches.