Culturally, I think we should start viewing ourselves as consumers of ideas that leave a lot of them to rot out on the counter.
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Kinda crazy how much more advice there is on persuading people than on being persuaded. Not just when to buy an argument, but also how to get it to percolate through your models of the world & actually behave as though you'd bought it.
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"don't look at who made the idea, in fact don't even look at which website it was posted on, in fact have your favorite public intellectual read the idea out loud to you"
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still convinced that these particular organic intelligences don't like to have their utility functions changed and must be deceived into having it done
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A result of the axiomatic belief that one's idea is Correct? And the corollary: most everyone thinks that, so by default reject ideas unless personally swayed into also holding that idea or belief. Heuristic there: get someone to feel a belief, and they'll behave as if it's true
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You might be interested in https://medium.com/@benbayer_62236/the-sniff-test-cb5727f319a6 …
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Until I got to know someone good at this for a human, I only paid lip service to the idea that you can do it. I didn't really know that I didn't know.
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That’s basically what all of Greek and Roman philosophy was about.
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. It is about competition. The deadly one. But fortunately, not the most important.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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A revelation of underlying egoism: one is naturally motivated to persuade others; not to be persuaded.
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