Socratic Persuasion: Giving Opinionated Yet Truth-Seeking Advice

By Neel Nanda @ 2025-05-26T17:38 (+65)

This is a linkpost to https://www.neelnanda.io/51-socratic-persuasion

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Angelina Li @ 2025-05-28T16:55 (+6)

I found this a helpful frame for having better feedback conversations, and in the last 1-2 days I've occasionally thought to myself, "how could I be doing more socratic persuasion here?" Thanks! I particularly liked the "goals" sections of the examples, found them helpful :)

Neel Nanda @ 2025-05-28T17:34 (+5)

Really glad to hear it! (And that writing several thousand words of very in depth examples was useful!) I'd love to hear if it proves to be useful longer term

Vasco Grilo🔸 @ 2025-05-28T18:22 (+4)

Great post, Neel! I can see myself going back to it.