buybuydandavis comments on Questioning and Respect - Less Wrong

20 Post author: jkaufman 10 June 2014 10:52AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 June 2014 11:57:44PM 3 points [-]

I wish to have respectful, enjoyable, and productive conversations. Part of achieving that goal is selecting the people I interact with.

Being a Type 2 - the "disagreement not taken as an insult" crowd, I can have the most productive conversations with other Type 2s. I'd argue that a Type 2 to Type 2 discussion is the most productive of truth, as more effort is spent on effective communication of content, instead of managing the state of the other person.

I think that's the more general difference - the degree to which one habitually manages the state of others, and expects to have one's own state managed in turn.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 11 June 2014 08:19:07AM 2 points [-]

Seems like the people who are bad at managing the state of others are doomed to have productive conversations. Or no conversations at all... depending on their environment.