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April 7 2019

The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively

Disagreement is central to our lives online. ‘Erisologists’ want to study it more systematically.

In the early days of the internet, way back in the 1990s, tech utopians envisioned a glittering digital future in which people from very different backgrounds could come together online and, if not reach consensus, at least learn something from one another. In the actual future we inhabit, things didn’t work out this way. The internet, especially social media, looks less like a dinner party and more like a riot. People talk past one another, and the discussion spirals down accordingly.

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KP, Dave, Skeldon-Man should read this....

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April 7 2019

The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively

Disagreement is central to our lives online. ‘Erisologists’ want to study it more systematically.

In the early days of the internet, way back in the 1990s, tech utopians envisioned a glittering digital future in which people from very different backgrounds could come together online and, if not reach consensus, at least learn something from one another. In the actual future we inhabit, things didn’t work out this way. The internet, especially social media, looks less like a dinner party and more like a riot. People talk past one another, and the discussion spirals down accordingly.

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KP, Dave, Skeldon-Man should read this....

Is some good fkt broadside you want at yo ***** 

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April 7 2019

The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively

Disagreement is central to our lives online. ‘Erisologists’ want to study it more systematically.

In the early days of the internet, way back in the 1990s, tech utopians envisioned a glittering digital future in which people from very different backgrounds could come together online and, if not reach consensus, at least learn something from one another. In the actual future we inhabit, things didn’t work out this way. The internet, especially social media, looks less like a dinner party and more like a riot. People talk past one another, and the discussion spirals down accordingly.

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KP, Dave, Skeldon-Man should read this....

Is some good fkt broadside you want at yo ***** 

  dude, you got a sense a humor?

I vote for Skeldon_man, Yuji, and KP as the most out of order ****eries that can make the science of arguments child's play. It's like teaching old dogs new tricks.