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Various ways of how to integrate worldviews between rationalists that I thought about:

Make arguments about various claims, find flaws in claims, and repeat
Find a double crux and focus on that instead
Dump info that formed your worldview and/or intuition, as in rationalist mind melding
Give a bunch of various examples about concepts in your ontology to hammer them down
Make predictions about very concrete questions such that common ground is found even if ontologies are different
Document what the other must know when arguing with you (including your fundamental assumptions), and reference it to the person you're arguing with so that they have the prerequisites

I do find myself think about how this is such a high-trust vulnerable thing to do (especially the info dump and concept assumptions), if anyone has even really done such in 'public'. Mine would probably have so many "childhood experiences" narrativized, certain people blown up into some platonic ideal of patterns, especially listing out "this annoyed me so I didn't want to associate" is pretty vulnerable. I don't disagree with this comment at all so it's interesting that I think this I guess.

Various ways of how to integrate worldviews between rationalists that I thought about:

Make arguments about various claims, find flaws in claims, and repeat
Find a double crux and focus on that instead
Dump info that formed your worldview and/or intuition, as in rationalist mind melding
Give a bunch of various examples about concepts in your ontology to hammer them down
Make predictions about very concrete questions such that common ground is found even if ontologies are different
Document what the other must know when arguing with you (including your fundamental assumptions), and reference it to the person you're arguing with so that they have the prerequisites

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