Here’s another potentially helpful frame you may might want to add to the list of collaborative truth-seeking techniques:
‘Lose’ to Win: Aim to change your own mind, not the other’s (within the constraints of rationality/ logic of course). You gain more from the process the more you manage to update your beliefs, with the thankworthy support from your truth-seeking collaborator. Because, assuming hygienic epistemology in the process, your changed beliefs will be based on more – valuable – data/ ideas. (As a bonus, this will make your collaborator happy and improve the bond between the two of you.) You can put this into practice through the technique of steelmanning.
(Steelmanning is already on the technique list:
Be open: orient toward improving the other person’s points to argue against their strongest form
I like the Lose to Win notion—it’s captured a bit in the phrase in the article “adopt the best evidence and arguments, no matter if they are yours of those of others” but the “Lose To Win” does so better. Thanks!
Here’s another potentially helpful frame you may might want to add to the list of collaborative truth-seeking techniques:
‘Lose’ to Win: Aim to change your own mind, not the other’s (within the constraints of rationality/ logic of course). You gain more from the process the more you manage to update your beliefs, with the thankworthy support from your truth-seeking collaborator. Because, assuming hygienic epistemology in the process, your changed beliefs will be based on more – valuable – data/ ideas. (As a bonus, this will make your collaborator happy and improve the bond between the two of you.) You can put this into practice through the technique of steelmanning.
(Steelmanning is already on the technique list:
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I like the Lose to Win notion—it’s captured a bit in the phrase in the article “adopt the best evidence and arguments, no matter if they are yours of those of others” but the “Lose To Win” does so better. Thanks!