57 - Buster Benson - The Value of Arguing

You can find Buster’s book Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement here:
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Are-We-Yelling-hardcover/dp/0525540105.

For my Letter exchange with Buster (one of my two favourite conversations I’ve ever had on the site) see:
https://letter.wiki/conversation/225.

Buster’s Letter exchange with B. J. Campbell on guns see:
https://letter.wiki/conversation/129.

Belief tracking:
https://busterbenson.com/beliefs/

Write to Buster at Letter:
https://letter.wiki/BusterBenson/conversations

Write to me at Letter:
https://letter.wiki/IonaItalia/conversations

Further References

James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide (2019)

My review of Impossible Conversations for Areo magazine:
https://areomagazine.com/2019/09/03/impossible-conversations/

Oliver Traldi’s review of Impossible Conversations for Arc Digital:
https://arcdigital.media/the-political-pick-up-artists-6bcece72bb92

Timestamps
2:49 Persuasion vs. changing your own mind
5:02 The value of honest, open conflict
9:11 The voice of power, the voice of avoidance, the voice of truth
13:12 How to make disagreements feel less threatening and more exploratory
17:42 Techniques for helping a group to have more productive disagreements
25:12 Conflicts of head, heart and hands
35:06 Disagreements with people you’re close to
44:22 Opinion tracking
51:40 Tribalism
52:45 Iterated prisoner’s dilemma games
55:10 Lessons in cooperation from Covid-19
1:01:46 How to improve good will.