1. Don't actually defend your beliefs whatever they happen to be Ideally don't even reveal them except for confidants Explicating beliefs is an attack surface for tiresome people
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2. This is kind of sad because it limits what you can say directly, but our friend Strauss lights the way Encrypting your beliefs when you /must/ explicate them is actually a lot of fun ime photo credit to
@literalbanana of coursepic.twitter.com/YrZDsuBADv
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3. In any case expressing your beliefs is less valuable in most circumstances than asking questions, and as dear Socrates demonstrated you can often do a better job making an argument by interrogation than you can by declaration
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4. What if you are cornered? You have two options One is asking questions to make sure you understand your interlocutors point, which you agree in advance is a point you absolutely agree with even if you dont quite understand the details https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1272695364626210822?s=19 …
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5. The other is to express certain other beliefs that you dont have, at Length, to generate Empathy in your interlocutor https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1065412017878634497 …pic.twitter.com/FunV5XJ2rs
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Ok I know discourse is good and all But as far as people claim to be part of the same social thing, it's OK to have feelings about other people's beliefs and views to the contrary are attempts to surpress some beliefs in favor of others without seriously shit-testing them
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I keep thinking of that story where a thief is like "No don't hit me sir I don't have free will" And then Heraclitus is like "Neither do I" and hits him
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These sound like a lot of work
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i have bad news about interpersonal relationships
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