I am really trying to maintain optimism about possibility of having productive conversations with people with different views. I really am.
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I am so sick of being told I've said things I haven't & couldn't possibly be assumed to mean by comprehending the words I've used.
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I am just sick of it, full stop. All the ugliness & rage & polarisation & distortion & misrepresentation & tribalism.
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I think twitter makes it impossible to engage an argument in good faith. Concision is a prescription for misrepresentation and signaling
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I wrote a thing on why I don't think that's true. Relevant from 'A different kind of conversation' if interested;https://conatusnews.com/twitter-productive-conversation/ …
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Great article
@HPluckrose ...I'll stop being negative
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Have to constrain convo by the conclusions' results. "If true, how would your idea be instantiated and how would that make the world btr?"
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Tools for logical debate have been stripped away from ppl over the last few decades. We are losing the vocabulary & reasoning skills
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That's a very good question in the current 'war of ideas'! And yes it's exhausting.
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think of it as if you were on a radio program, other are reading and considering the arguments...they are the audience.
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