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Comment author: Kawoomba 20 January 2014 08:00:19AM 4 points [-]

My motivation behind this post stems from (Aumann's agreement theorem)

It shouldn't, for hu-mans Aumann's is more like a dark artsy inspirational poster of "YOU can do ANYTHING if you just believe in yourself!" than it is a relevantly applicable theorem (the wiki article is in need of an overhaul).

Comment author: adamzerner 20 January 2014 08:10:40AM 1 point [-]

I think it's pretty much impossible for people to 'share all information' with each other. A lot of that information is pattern-recognition heuristics that we don't even really have conscious access to.

Still though, I think that if both arguers are pretty rational and spend some time sharing information, there's a pretty good chance that they end up agreeing.

Comment author: Kawoomba 20 January 2014 08:38:44AM 2 points [-]

Still though, I think that if both arguers are pretty rational and spend some time sharing information, there's a pretty good chance that they end up agreeing.

Can we agree that if I disagree with that, it also serves as a counterexample?

Comment author: philh 20 January 2014 01:49:21PM 3 points [-]

How much time have you two spent sharing information?

Comment author: MrMind 20 January 2014 10:10:06AM 0 points [-]

Still though, I think that if both arguers are pretty rational and spend some time sharing information, there's a pretty good chance that they end up agreeing.

... or, at least, have a pretty good idea on exactly what they have different opinions on and why.
Which is as good as it gets, for me.

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