“Regarding Gleb’s point #1 I would like to agree in particular that harsh hyperbole like “Gleb made the experience of almost all EAs significantly worse” is objectionable, and Oliver should not have used it.”
I agree, and am aware that I tend towards hyperbole in discourse in general. I apologize for that tendency, and am working on finding a communication style that successfully communicates all the aspects of a message that I want to convey, without distorting the accuracy of its denotative message. I am sorry for both the potentially false implications of using such hyperbole, as well as the negative contribution to the conversational climate.
Replacing the fairly vague, and somewhat hyperbolic “almost all” with a more precise “about 70-90%” seems like a strict improvement, and I think captures my view on this more correctly. I do think that something in the 70% − 90% space is accurate, and mostly leaves the core of the argument intact (though I do still think that using the kind of hyperbole I am prone to use creates an unnecessarily adverse conversational style, that I think generally isn’t very productive).
“Regarding Gleb’s point #1 I would like to agree in particular that harsh hyperbole like “Gleb made the experience of almost all EAs significantly worse” is objectionable, and Oliver should not have used it.”
I agree, and am aware that I tend towards hyperbole in discourse in general. I apologize for that tendency, and am working on finding a communication style that successfully communicates all the aspects of a message that I want to convey, without distorting the accuracy of its denotative message. I am sorry for both the potentially false implications of using such hyperbole, as well as the negative contribution to the conversational climate.
Replacing the fairly vague, and somewhat hyperbolic “almost all” with a more precise “about 70-90%” seems like a strict improvement, and I think captures my view on this more correctly. I do think that something in the 70% − 90% space is accurate, and mostly leaves the core of the argument intact (though I do still think that using the kind of hyperbole I am prone to use creates an unnecessarily adverse conversational style, that I think generally isn’t very productive).