what does it mean to understand each other
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- Conversation As Medium solutions are way harder than problems the importance of being able to say that you don't yet know how to solve a problem what does it mean to understand each other compromise is not what everyone wants Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings Dialectic Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Realitywith any misunderstanding, it's possible (& usually worthwhile) to come to a place of profoundly mutually satisfying shared understanding just because someone has an articulation of a problem, doesn't mean their proposed solution is any good solutions are way harder than problems SimPol John Bunzl omniwin perspective-taking Coherence Therapy Questions Are Not Just For Asking the point of friendliness is not to avoid conflict, but to actually create contexts that allow for deeper, more intense, prolonged conflict over the long term the importance of being able to say that you don't yet know how to solve a problem double bind contradiction there's no way to communicate correctly or incorrectly - there's just what works in context and what doesn't work meaning John Vervaeke
August 9th, 2021
- great post by Eliezer Yudkowsky on illusion of transparency and how he learned while writing HPMOR that his words weren't sufficient to pin down his meanings
- > So it taught me that Illusion of Transparency isn't about hint-missing, it's about there really actually respectably being multiple interpretations. And that was when I started to understand that my words were really actually not pinning down the meaning I had in my own mind, because I couldn't see all the possibilities I needed to exclude, because I was blinded by my own knowledge of the intended answer.