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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: Re: Mike Terry Proves --- How the requirements that Professor Sipser
 agreed to are exactly met
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 15:57:10 +0100
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On 20/05/2025 15:22, olcott wrote:
> I wish that people would pay attention.

Your wish is in your power to grant.

> People only glance at a couple of words that I say

That might be because you're so repetitive, insulting, 
dismissive, and obfuscatory.

If you want people to pay attention to what you write, repeat 
less. (Don't think up an excuse for repeating more. Repeat less 
instead.)

If you want people to pay attention to what you write, insult 
less. (Don't think up an excuse for insulting more. Insult less 
instead.)

If you want people to pay attention to what you write, don't 
dismiss out of hand what people are telling you. (Don't think up 
an excuse for dismissing out of hand what people are telling you. 
Listen to them instead.)

If you want people to pay attention to what you write, clarify 
your argument. (Don't think up an excuse for obfuscating. Clarify 
instead.)

Prepare a web page that summarises the logic of your claim. No 
code! Just English. Post the URL, and ask people for comments - 
not for arguments, but for improvements. What do they find 
unclear about your argument? Just for a while, forget trying to 
get people to agree with you and see if you can get them to 
understand you instead.

Because if you can do that, you have a fighting chance of turning 
this farce of a thread farrago into something that might actually 
serve a purpose.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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