wedrifid comments on Link: "You're Not Being Reasonable" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 18 September 2010 06:54:16AM 1 point [-]

I once wrote a very similar list, composed of questions to ask yourself when in an argument. I don't remember most of it, but my favorite one was:

This is yet another situation where my favorite question is "What do I want?" Being rational is the easy part - if and when I pull 'have an epistemologically rational conversation" goal into my self awareness. On the other hand if realize that social factors are more important to me I am a lot better at explicitly being social rather than just letting social signaling biases corrupt my epistemic reasoning while I pretend to be defending Truth.

Comment author: Relsqui 18 September 2010 07:00:40AM 2 points [-]

This is yet another situation where my favorite question is "What do I want?"

That seems sensible--and, actually, stating this explicitly might help avoid some types of conflict. When "I want to be entertained by having a nitpicky argument" meets "I want to convince you because I'm passionate about this," someone's going to wind up unhappy.