Effectively Handling Disagreements - Introducing a New Workshop

By Camille @ 2024-04-15T16:33 (+11)

This is a crosspost, probably from LessWrong. Try viewing it there.

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mako yass @ 2024-09-06T03:28 (+1)

Saw this on manifund. Very interested. Question, have you noticed any need for negotiation training here? I would expect some, because disagreements about the facts are usually a veiled proxy battle for disagreements about values, and,

I would expect it to be impossible to address the root cause of the disagreement without acknowledging the value difference, and even after agreeing about the facts, I'd expect people to keep disagreeing about actions or policies until a mutually agreeably fair compromise has been drawn up (the negotiation problem has been solved).

But you could say that agreeing about the facts is a pre-requisite to reaching a fair compromise. I believe this is true. Preference aggregation requires utility normalization which requires agreement about the outcome distribution. But how do we explain that to people in english?

Camille @ 2024-09-09T12:40 (+1)

Hello Mako, thanks for your interest ^^
I'm planning to open a negotiation training module later, probably next year.

mako yass @ 2024-09-11T04:07 (+1)

Well it may interest you to know that the above link is about a novel negotiation training game that I released recently. Though I think it's still quite unpolished, it's likely to see further development. You should probably look at it.

Camille @ 2024-09-11T10:04 (+1)

Yes, I saw it, and have it in mind as well! I'll reach back to you in the not so far future ;)

Corentin D. Biteau @ 2024-07-08T12:00 (+1)

For reference, I attended the workshop, and found it useful 🙂

It's nice to have a place to train to get better at communicating.

SummaryBot @ 2024-04-16T14:03 (+1)

Executive summary: A new workshop teaches evidence-based techniques for effectively handling disagreements through active listening, personal stories, and Socratic questioning to facilitate rational belief progression.

Key points:

  1. The workshop covers techniques like Deep Canvassing, Street Epistemology, Narrative Transportation, and Cooling Conversations to navigate disagreements productively.
  2. It targets people who struggle with or feel frustrated by disagreements, aiming to expand awareness, carefully spread ideas, improve perception, and align beliefs with truth.
  3. The workshop offers deliberate practice in a secure environment and can be taken online for free or in-person.
  4. All techniques taught are evidence- and consent-based, focused on agreeableness, respect, and truth-seeking, with ethical guidelines provided.
  5. The workshop's effectiveness will be rigorously tested, and the project will be discontinued if results are negative.
  6. Future plans include an autonomous online workshop, discussion moderator bot, synthesized method, and collaborations with organizations.

 

 

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