It's AI for sure.

It's a bummer but I click almost no blog or Show HNs any more due to the content engagement hacking with LLMs (and 99% are not sincere "well see English is not my native language", etc.)

Yeah, it does have a share button, but I do not think it is anything new, there is BlueSky, X, lord knows what else, and then HN.

Fishy or not, it worked. I found it on the front page here

I guess the only takeaway was: we should aware the other dimension (other than reasoning) when we try to convince/persuade somebody.

This article can be re-written into something < 300 words.

And the people who repeat such statements uncritically to their reports will also get mildly annoyed when they have no Earthly clue what that actually means.

I looked up persuade and convince in the thesaurus and dictionary, based on the title, and then came to say the same thing. But then I got a little curious about the source of the title’s claim, and looked up Chaim Perelman. He really did try to make a distinction between convince and persuade in his influential book from sixty years ago, so the body of the blog post is accurate in a sense - this is a concept that came from an historically important philosopher. Perelman was dissecting argumentation and cataloguing the techniques for strong and persuasive arguments. The problem with this blog post is taking Perelman’s argument out of context and stating Perelman’s rhetorical distinction as though it’s a fact and then arguing logically for it. That leaves out all the ethos and pathos that Perelman was trying to convey is necessary for a good argument, and it also misses slightly on the logos as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha%C3%AFm_Perelman

> AIq insight porn

put very succinctly. if done without ai, the more impressive!