You can find Buster’s book Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement here: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Are-We-Yelling-hardcover/dp/0525540105.
For my Letter exchange with Buster (one of my two favourite conversations I’ve ever had on the site) see:https://letter.wiki/conversation/225.
Buster’s Letter exchange with B. J. Campbell on guns see:https://letter.wiki/conversation/129.
Belief tracking: https://busterbenson.com/beliefs/
Write to Buster at Letter:https://letter.wiki/BusterBenson/conversations
Write to me at Letter: https://letter.wiki/IonaItalia/conversationsFurther References
James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide (2019)
My review of Impossible Conversations for Areo magazine:https://areomagazine.com/2019/09/03/impossible-conversations/
Oliver Traldi’s review of Impossible Conversations for Arc Digital:https://arcdigital.media/the-political-pick-up-artists-6bcece72bb92
Timestamps2:49 Persuasion vs. changing your own mind5:02 The value of honest, open conflict9:11 The voice of power, the voice of avoidance, the voice of truth13:12 How to make disagreements feel less threatening and more exploratory17:42 Techniques for helping a group to have more productive disagreements25:12 Conflicts of head, heart and hands35:06 Disagreements with people you’re close to 44:22 Opinion tracking51:40 Tribalism52:45 Iterated prisoner’s dilemma games55:10 Lessons in cooperation from Covid-191:01:46 How to improve good will.
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