Me on @MargRev (thanks @tylercowen):https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/05/michael-nielsen-standing-one-foot.html …
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For most people - even people I like a great deal and who I find it easy to argue with in person - Twitter (esp at 140 chars, less so now) encourages you to strip out all the little allowances that are actually crucial for good argument.
And, of course, in general good argument requires a lot of good faith norms to be present and enforced. These are not present in many parts of the Internet, and hard to conjure up quickly. Thus “Yes, and” is often a good default starting point. And it’s a wonderful mode, anyway!!
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I wonder if we can formulate the benefits of "Yes, and" in terms algorithms? It's kind of like a constraint problem, you can flip a bit and see all the clauses that are violated, all that is wrong, or you can flip a bit, and see that it is a path out of a local minimum.
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A sort of gentle, high temperature simulated anneal!
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This is great! An easy way to implement: 1) Accept their assumptions. If you don't accept, don't engage. 2) Instead of challenging them if you think they're wrong, ask for clarification or propose an alternative
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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