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> # Toxicity too low

> 47% toxic: Why do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you don't take yourself seriously.

I would have put that under "toxicity too high"; it seems like a conventional, vanilla exhortation to be more self-confident?




Depends on context. I can easily imagine it used as an attack, like: “Why aren’t you defending the point you made earlier? It seems you don’t take your own argument seriously. Why do you expect…”


> Depends on context.

Exactly.


Yeah, you might be right. That one example isn't very well thought out.




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