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prior to the deliberative process, my ideas were just what my friends thought. ,y head was full of slogans. I had no interest in truth, I just believed things that seemed good to believe. I calibrated my inner compass from the people I looked up to and that was enough
deliberation was the 1st time my ideas had been tested by good faith disagreement, sustained debate, other people with different experiences & different beliefs, who were willing to stay with the discomfort of disagreeing, not immediately jumping to "OSTRACISE THE HERETIC!!"
that was humbling, because I learnt most of my beliefs were fake. but I gained a kind of intelligence that ~80% of people don't have, I learned to think for myself, I learned to distinguish fake beliefs from true ones
and the reason I'm confident this method can work for lots of people: I got evidence bishes https://t.co/NEIYt4mY0U
tpot isn't a movement its a republic of letters. this is literally the only place on the internet I can actually have deep ideological disagreements with people that are still friendly and in good faith. THIS IS IMPORTANT LET ME HAVE THIS.
@aleksil79 I did a little demon summoning, as a treat https://t.co/NOcb8Fd1Fy
how to https://t.co/6oZhKRuqXF
@BecomingCritter deleting the tribal affiliations from the claim; inhabiting the counter argument and finding what's good about it; triangulating between my perspective and what domain-specific trustworthy peers think about it; making speculative statements in public and listening to the echo...
what is deliberation https://t.co/ZIjlmGa9fs
@RichDecibels I’ve been leading Socratic conversations in k12 classrooms for 35 years. I definitely believe it increases intelligence (when done right). Here is an early experience that led to significant measurable gains. https://t.co/mu5WpXC3ok
here's a fascinating story illustrating what its like to introduce socratic conversations into a classroom https://t.co/pMjbv06n6M
@RichDecibels this feels like part of what i did with my mom, tho just in a 1:1 context https://t.co/I6e7WMq4mT
I’ve become a lot more skeptical of my judgments about other people, I think in large part from having been very sure about my mom for 30 years and having been wrong. If my judgments of someone I know so well were inaccurate, how could i be sure of my judgments of anyone?
@RichDecibels https://t.co/JIjv6F5pZ5
