khafra comments on How to always have interesting conversations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 14 June 2010 12:48:28PM 5 points [-]

The graph, the practiced transitions, and the sensitivity to your interlocutor's level of interest in the current node, relative to other nodes and the weighted distance to each better node--all that is a general tool for interesting conversations. Having a specific set of life experiences is a more specialized way to have interesting conversations.