[themodelplumber]

There's some pretty astonishing theory out there as to who you can tell things to, in a way that they'll understand immediately. It's pretty interesting and unfortunately very subjective.

But one thing I learned from it is that if you can identify specific people who get you, generally speaking, you should then see if you can mold newly-discovered communication problems around this already-functional communications relationship.

[jerry1979]

Please tell me there is actually such a theory and that this is not an AI comment.

[Jensson]

This is exactly the kind of problem ChatGPT is good at solving. Just ask it and you will get theories. I asked and it gave a list, I think he talked about uncertainty reduction theory since the other things ChatGPT listed didn't make sense in this context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_reduction_theory

Edit: Not sure if that response is really correct, but at least it is a tractable way to try to approach this. ChatGPT let you fuzzy match words or theories much better than Google, and then you have things you can Google.

[nakts]

Funny that the GPT detector is giving 75-99 percent AI probability for that comment.

[LeonB]

And keywords or search terms you can supply as a way into learning more, would be much appreciated.

[elefanten]

Agree with sibling comments asking for search terms.

What body of work / what field are you talking about?