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1. jl6+W6[view] [source] 2021-12-12 20:07:43
>>hn_thr+(OP)
I think what you’re looking for is a high quality conversation: where both parties invest effort in maintaining good faith and are self-aware enough to recognize what assumptions and biases they bring into the debate; where there is a mutual goal of learning, rather than winning; and where the participants are self-secure and mature enough not to need their tribal identity validating.

This is all much more likely to happen outside of the public gaze.

And so I think you are looking not for a website but for a person, or perhaps a website that helps gather such people - and somehow keeps out those who claim to be all of the above but are fooling themselves or the rest of us.

Where do you find good people? There’s probably a market for an “intellectual dating site”.

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2. jccalh+ue[view] [source] 2021-12-12 21:01:55
>>jl6+W6
I think it is hard to have "high quality" conversation because not only is it difficult to determine what counts as high quality but also because it is so easy for a public thread to get derailed by comments that present nuanced issues as simplistic.
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