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Conversation (topic)

Edited by Ruby, et al. last updated 1st Apr 2025

A conversation is when two people talk or correspond. Most content here is about how to have good conversations. (This wikitag needs work.)

For records of conversations, see Interviews, Debates,...

See also:

  • Communication Cultures
  • Relationships (Interpersonal)
  • Community

Conversation Halter

This term was introduced on LessWrong by Eliezer in the eponymous post:

While working on my book, I found in passing that I'd developed a list of what I started out calling "stonewalls", but have since decided to refer to as "conversation halters".  These tactics of argument are distinguished by their being attempts to cut off the flow of debate - which is rarely the wisest way to think, and should certainly rate an alarm bell.

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Posts tagged Conversation (topic)
31Noise on the Channel
abramdemski
5y
8
29Yudkowsky's 'Four Layers of Intellectual Conversation'
Gram_Stone
9y
3
369To listen well, get curious
benkuhn
5y
37
210A Sketch of Good Communication
Ben Pace
7y
36
59Conversational canyons
Henrik Karlsson
3y
4
43Excessive Nuance and Derailing Conversations
Alexander
4y
13
24Choosing battles (on the Internet)
PatrickDFarley
4y
2
300Taboo Your Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
133
220Noticing Frame Differences
Raemon
6y
40
141Hashing out long-standing disagreements seems low-value to me
So8res
3y
34
78Do you fear the rock or the hard place?
Ruby
6y
10
57What product are you building?
Raemon
6y
6
53Writing Down Conversations
Raemon
8y
13
40Explore/Exploit for Conversations
Hazard
7y
2
400Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
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