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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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    Resisting pious preaching about admitting when you are wrong or being willing to change your mind when presented with new contradictory facts is rational. Mere admission is concession to opposed views which may be just as wrong. There's a better way to update your positions...

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    • Jim Pope Graham Thornton ian m hines Stefan Rotenberg "Fire Buddha" Rival Voices (76/284 olympic squats) Pirates sleep soundly (for Santa) Death will not release you Virtual Topic Bandeauxx.
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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        This is to *interpret* your wrongness in the process of acknowledging it. This is not the same thing as trying to spin it or mitigate it or making excuses. This is about understanding and accommodating the new thing that made you wrong.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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        Generally, when you are wrong in shallow ways (getting a solid fact wrong), it's not hard to admit it. Your natural resistance around deeper wrongness is because of your (correct) suspicion that there's probably something there that should force updates on ALL views.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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        If you're wrong in a way that forces you to update a position, but your opponent is able to stay put and gloat-derp, and it's not something shallow, you're both probably missing something. As the one who's experienced the undermining first, you get to uncover what.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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        Flipping the discipline, when you see your opponent slip up on a fact and forced to update, resist the temptation to treat it as an unforced error and an opening for you to "win" a point. You have the luxury of not being forced to understand, which is precisely why you should try

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      1. Pirates sleep soundly (for Santa)‏ @Wit_recycler 18 Sep 2019
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        Great thread although I think @Evolving_Ego could appreciate it on more levels than I'm capable of....

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      1. Jscott‏ @DailySuicide 19 Sep 2019
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        You have a skilled way of communicating these type of things. Not mushy not subtweety. (I just LOL'd at myself searching for a joke or emoji, because of my perceived lack of said martial skill)

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