The key is not to hyper-optimize specific messages, but rather to develop dialogues with the “spirits” or perspectives that tons of people share.
They don’t have to understand on the first try and we don’t need to fit all the essentials into the perfect message. We just need to keep going back and forth, and adjusting what we say based on the Other’s response, and try to course-correct until we hit the target.
This is also the way because we need action, not just understanding. What good is it to convince people if they then end up paralyzed with akrasia or otherwise unhelpful or anti-helpful?
With the dialogical approach, if we ever do succeed at arriving at sufficient understanding, we’ll get a fair amount of action thrown in for free!
The key is not to hyper-optimize specific messages, but rather to develop dialogues with the “spirits” or perspectives that tons of people share.
They don’t have to understand on the first try and we don’t need to fit all the essentials into the perfect message. We just need to keep going back and forth, and adjusting what we say based on the Other’s response, and try to course-correct until we hit the target.
This is also the way because we need action, not just understanding. What good is it to convince people if they then end up paralyzed with akrasia or otherwise unhelpful or anti-helpful?
With the dialogical approach, if we ever do succeed at arriving at sufficient understanding, we’ll get a fair amount of action thrown in for free!