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Aug 29, 2016 22 min

007 - When Rational Debate is Impossible

from The Argument Ninja Podcast

When is it worth your time to try to have a rational conversation with someone? When should you give up? What are the conditions that have to be satisfied for a rational conversation to even be possible? That's the topic of this episode. Overview: - the problem that Sam Harris is struggling with - a Q&A question from Essi on what to do when people "just don't get it" - my original answer to the question "what conditions must be satisfied to have a rational conversation with someone?" - my first amendment: (1) what to do after you've recognized that there's a problem - my second amendment: (2) what to do in light of the fact that our capacity to reason comes in degrees - my latest video course project ("Is Your Brain a Computer?") and how you can get early access to those videos

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