How can we begin to resolve our problems, if even our conversations about them keep breaking down? Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay have researched ninja-level conversation techniques from hostage negotiation and cult deprogramming for their new book, ‘How To Have Impossible Conversations’. At the same time, a new competition has been launched on ‘Letter.Wiki’ to have difficult conversations across intellectual divides.
We talk to the book’s authors, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, t
he judge of the ‘Impossible Conversations’ competition, Helen Pluckrose, and the creators of the social media site Letter.Wiki, Clyde and Dayne Rathbone.‘How To Have Impossible Conversations’: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peter-boghossian/how-to-have-impossible-conversations/9780738285320/
Letter.Wiki: https://letter.wiki/conversations
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