There are individuals that will play truth-seeking games with you, which will enable both you to improve your beliefs (change your mind) and them theirs. Neither of these are “one person changing the other’s mind”, it’s more like “both seeking to understand the truth, and to change their own minds to model reality better”.
This gets less likely in larger groups, and less likely on far-mode topics of values and signaling. Chatting with individuals to find and resolve very specific disagreements on near-mode choices (what to eat tonight or what’s important about this book we’re co-studying or whatnot) is often very successful. And some of those techniques can apply in small groups on medium-term topics (who to support on city council among 3-5 close friends).
The majority of humans are unreachable as a group, and very very difficult as individuals. This is true even of fairly elite, high-IQ groups. Unless you have some reason to believe you have a comparative advantage in politics (and are willing to work your ass off for things that are dressed as rationality, but are more often about negotiation and compromise than about actual intellectual agreement and changing minds), I’d stay away from such things.
There are individuals that will play truth-seeking games with you, which will enable both you to improve your beliefs (change your mind) and them theirs. Neither of these are “one person changing the other’s mind”, it’s more like “both seeking to understand the truth, and to change their own minds to model reality better”.
This gets less likely in larger groups, and less likely on far-mode topics of values and signaling. Chatting with individuals to find and resolve very specific disagreements on near-mode choices (what to eat tonight or what’s important about this book we’re co-studying or whatnot) is often very successful. And some of those techniques can apply in small groups on medium-term topics (who to support on city council among 3-5 close friends).
The majority of humans are unreachable as a group, and very very difficult as individuals. This is true even of fairly elite, high-IQ groups. Unless you have some reason to believe you have a comparative advantage in politics (and are willing to work your ass off for things that are dressed as rationality, but are more often about negotiation and compromise than about actual intellectual agreement and changing minds), I’d stay away from such things.