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Society can’t solve its own problems anymore. We need to fix that, or else.
Angry idiots undoing everything you build? Gotta get ‘em on the same page.
“How? That’s obviously impossible.”
Good! You are my target audience. Keep reading.
(scoff) “Why bother? That’s obviously impossible.”
Stop. You are an angry idiot. Don’t read this book.
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“On the same page? How?”
HIRE, and LoRC.
The internet is awash in angry idiots. But with a little help, rational argument can still restore order.
All it needs is a wedge, and a patch.
HIRE is that wedge. It defuses “angry.” HIRE stands for Habit, Instinct, Reason, and Emotion, the core components of human decision-making. HIRE makes rational argument possible.
LoRC is that patch. It defuses “idiots.” LoRC stands for “the Law of Radical Consensus,” an internet-age upgrade for making rational sense out of informational chaos. LoRC makes rational argument productive.
Let’s get you equipped.
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“You don’t start by trying to get on the same page. You start by getting the other person to stop trying to destroy, by pure reflex, every course of action you suggest.”
“Information is flying by way too fast, everyone has their own facts & definitions, and there’s NO WAY to tell what is true.”
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HIRE
HIRE is a model of human decision-making. It blends rational and non-rational roots into a unified framework.
According to HIRE, human decision-making is muddled and messy because a constant tug-of-war exists between its four components: Habit, Instinct, Reason, and Emotion.
Of these four components, Reason is the s l o w e s t:
Therefore (says HIRE), to make argument possible, the three faster components must first be defused.
HIRE crash course:
classroom: What is the HIRE model? How does it work?
driving lessons: tips, tricks, and techniques for effective HIRE gameplay
road trip: examples of the HIRE wedge in action
“You don’t start by trying to get on the same page. You start by getting the other person to stop trying to destroy, by pure reflex, every course of action you suggest.”
HIRE makes argument possible.
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LoRC
The LoRC is literal “common sense” problem-solving. It heals broken arguments.
According to the LoRC, argument is only persuasive under certain specific conditions. Today’s internet scales well past those conditions. This overwhelms the process of argument itself, making everyone (else) look like idiots:
Perhaps (says the LoRC), the cause of our current crisis is not idiocy, but scale.
And that means we can fix it with a patch.
LoRC crash course:
classroom: What is the LoRC? How does it work?
driving lessons: tips, tricks, and techniques for effective LoRC gameplay
road trip: examples of the LoRC patch in action
“Information is flying by way too fast, everyone has their own facts & definitions, and there’s NO WAY to tell what is true.”
LoRC makes argument productive.
to be continued