Yeah Eliezer really isn’t the most efficient communicator, at least in discussions. Being able to predict how someone will interpret your words and adjusting them to illicit the correct interpretation is an impossible skill to perfect, but it’s nearly as difficult to master. Unfortunately, it’s the singular skill utterly completely critical for one party to posses for a conversation to go anywhere, and in this case neither party did a good job of efficiently contradicting incorrect interpretations. Eliezer did a better job though, for what it’s worth.
Yeah Eliezer really isn’t the most efficient communicator, at least in discussions. Being able to predict how someone will interpret your words and adjusting them to illicit the correct interpretation is an impossible skill to perfect, but it’s nearly as difficult to master. Unfortunately, it’s the singular skill utterly completely critical for one party to posses for a conversation to go anywhere, and in this case neither party did a good job of efficiently contradicting incorrect interpretations. Eliezer did a better job though, for what it’s worth.