[extropy-chat] Re: Formulating a bet

[Robin Hanson]

At 03:45 AM 3/28/2005, Brett Paatsch wrote:
>In practice it seems that that, a difference in commitment or interest
>towards different issues, perhaps because of a higher interest in other
>things, is enough for disagreements to persist.

This must be true within the subset of people who are willing to disagree 
with other similar people, but who would come to agree with time discussing 
the issue.  Not at clear how big a subset of people this is though.  People 
often harden and widen their positions with discussion, after all.



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