I’m glad you wrote about the debate failure mode. The clear picture you gave of it will probably help me in future conversations; I’d kind of noticed the phenomenon, and I’d kind of noticed how to dodge it, but much less clearly.
Although I might appreciate reviews of the basics more than most people do. It seems to me there’s a great deal that I kind of roughly get on an abstract, “get the right answers on a multiple choice test” kind of level, but that I haven’t yet integrated into my root vision of the world. Meditating on the basics helps me, there.
I’m glad you wrote about the debate failure mode. The clear picture you gave of it will probably help me in future conversations; I’d kind of noticed the phenomenon, and I’d kind of noticed how to dodge it, but much less clearly.
Although I might appreciate reviews of the basics more than most people do. It seems to me there’s a great deal that I kind of roughly get on an abstract, “get the right answers on a multiple choice test” kind of level, but that I haven’t yet integrated into my root vision of the world. Meditating on the basics helps me, there.