I often despair at inability to communicate everyday life ideas at my own level. It’s normal to have a textbook problem that is very difficult to solve, or to have a solution to said problem that is difficult to communicate. Sometimes it takes a lot of study to know enough to understand such a problem. But people don’t expect to encounter such depth in the analysis of everyday life situations, or indeed in explanations of trivial remarks, and so they won’t have the patience to understand a more difficult argument, or to learn the prerequisites for understanding it.
This leads to disagreements that I know (in theory) how to resolve (by explaining the reasons for a given position), but the other person won’t study. The only short-term solution is to accept the impossibility of communication, and never mention the tiny details that you won’t be able to easily substantiate.
An effective long-term solution is to gradually educate people around you, giving them rationalist’s tools that you’ll be eventually able to use to cut through the communication difficulty.
I often despair at inability to communicate everyday life ideas at my own level. It’s normal to have a textbook problem that is very difficult to solve, or to have a solution to said problem that is difficult to communicate. Sometimes it takes a lot of study to know enough to understand such a problem. But people don’t expect to encounter such depth in the analysis of everyday life situations, or indeed in explanations of trivial remarks, and so they won’t have the patience to understand a more difficult argument, or to learn the prerequisites for understanding it.
This leads to disagreements that I know (in theory) how to resolve (by explaining the reasons for a given position), but the other person won’t study. The only short-term solution is to accept the impossibility of communication, and never mention the tiny details that you won’t be able to easily substantiate.
An effective long-term solution is to gradually educate people around you, giving them rationalist’s tools that you’ll be eventually able to use to cut through the communication difficulty.