DanArmak comments on Social status hacks from The Improv Wiki - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 21 March 2012 05:34:17AM 20 points [-]

Lowering another person's status [....] "lowering someone's status" is "humiliating them." • Contradict them. Tell them they are wrong. Prove it with facts and logic.

There's your two-sentence summary of why human rationality requires dedicated training.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 April 2015 10:02:46AM 0 points [-]

Um, or more tactful argumentation. Try this: "This is an excellent idea! Let me try to add something else to it..." and slowly lead on to an idea that is actually correct and let them slowly buy into it, and sooner or later they will figure out on their own that then the original one cannot be correct.