Buster Benson

@buster

Author of Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement. Co-runs with . Past: , , , .

Berkeley, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: srpanj 2006.
Rođen/a 28. svibnja 1976.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    21. stu 2019.

    I'm still in absolute shock that Seth Godin liked my book. 🤯 If you plan on taking his advice here, now is the perfect time to get it because it's 40% off on Amazon:

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    prije 12 sati

    I love Super Bowl statistics. (“No team that has failed to convert at least 35% of their 3rd downs has gone on to win” etc.) They are the best introduction to p-hacking that can be found outside major journals.

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    31. sij

    Just finished book and I’m now trying to lean into discomfort, actively falsify my beliefs, and listen to my voice of curiosity. Also, aporia is my jam

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  4. 31. sij

    It had to be this way, since most of evolution and history climbed towards higher and higher forms of productivity without any true intention (or wisdom about how) to do so. It’s a free-floating productive disagreement / virtual engine / opponent process that works despite us.

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  5. 31. sij

    Some call this dynamic a virtual engine, or an opponent process. I think of it as productive disagreement. A disagreement can be productive even if you only wanted to win, as long as it stays alive long enough to fuel this back-and-forth self-correcting dialogue.

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  6. 31. sij

    I see competitive and collaborative urges as two forces that must always remain strong enough to overpower and correct the corruptive tendencies in the other. They sharpen each other. Each blade is improved by the other, against its will.

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  7. 31. sij

    It’s tempting to see the corrective power of collaboration and to believe that if only collaboration could permanently overpower competition, we’d be better off as a society. But I disagree.

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  8. 31. sij

    This dynamic is everywhere. And points to the fact that competition and collaboration aren’t opposites, but rather siblings. One uses might, the other uses size, but both aim for power. And both can be corrupted by power. (See: all institutions)

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  9. 31. sij

    We compete for power but also know that power corrupts. The only way to overthrow overpowered corruption is by collaborating with less powerful but more numerous people and groups against them.

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  10. 31. sij

    Those groups are cooperative, but there is competition for status and privilege within them.

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  11. 31. sij

    Markets are competitive, but we form cooperative groups and relationships inside those markets.

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  12. 31. sij

    It’s possible to see the evolution of society as a battle between competitive and cooperative urges.

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  13. 31. sij

    I dropped my phone in water yesterday and it’s still working fine but just noticed the letters along the right edge of my keyboard don’t work. Autocorrect is no longer a convenience but now a required assist for all words that have a ‘p’ in them. Whippersnapper hippocampus!

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  14. 30. sij

    At I was with old Patronot friends discussing either death, moral philosophy, tech cynicism, or some blend of the three at Club Mallard. @ Club Mallard

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  15. 29. sij

    I love the question “When was a time someone showed you compassion when you really needed it?” I suspect some people have trouble finding an example of this in their lives. We need these moments in order to directly relate to others who are suffering.

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  16. 29. sij

    A study that showed “deep canvassing” to change some minds in durable ways has replicated. Worth a read!

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    29. sij

    😨 fearful + 💀 skull =

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  19. 28. sij

    The ultimate form of reasoning is to acknowledge when reasoning isn't producing the outcomes you expect/desire. Reasoning can't be the hammer for every nail, sometimes it stands to reason that another tool is a better fit for the situation.

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  20. 28. sij

    Guilty. Also, this Unified Theory of Star Wars is such a wonderful read.

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  21. 27. sij

    Either way we have a long way to go before we're a mature civilization that can think coherently. We are still in metaphorical diapers in many ways and the universe has not been very us-proofed either, as far as I can tell.

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