I’ve seen a lot of claims that “x distracts from y” come up as a request to stay on topic. Sometimes a group of people will be having a conversation about something (let’s say AI ethics) and someone else will show up and start talking about something different (let’s say AI safety). If they make a habit of this, it can make it really difficult to make any progress in your conversation (about AI ethics), and you might reasonably ask peoples to stop changing the subject
I see it most often in online spaces, like the comments of a forum or Facebook post, but I’ve seen it happen irl as well (for example, some women are discussing negative experiences related to being a woman and a man starts discussing another related topic before they’ve finished)
I’ve seen a lot of claims that “x distracts from y” come up as a request to stay on topic. Sometimes a group of people will be having a conversation about something (let’s say AI ethics) and someone else will show up and start talking about something different (let’s say AI safety). If they make a habit of this, it can make it really difficult to make any progress in your conversation (about AI ethics), and you might reasonably ask peoples to stop changing the subject
I see it most often in online spaces, like the comments of a forum or Facebook post, but I’ve seen it happen irl as well (for example, some women are discussing negative experiences related to being a woman and a man starts discussing another related topic before they’ve finished)