| I thoroughly enjoyed this article, it was a bit of a breath of fresh air. Some quotes that resonated: > There should be no illusion: today’s culture war cannot be won by any side. > Good faith communication is both a complex skill and a value commitment that shapes personal identity. In other words: doing it is sufficiently difficult that getting good at it will change the kind of person that you are. > Delicately transforming a situation of escalating bad faith requires the slow establishment of previously unrecognized shared interests, often on issues as basic as self-preservation. The goal in most cases is not agreement—that would be naive—the goal is simply to preserve the possibility of communication itself. Also learned the term "steelmanning," which seems to be pretty much identical to the hacker news guideline: > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. This essay also does a good job of explaining the concept: https://mypeculiarblog.com/2021/11/07/what-is-steelmanning/ |