# Anatol Rapoport

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Episode 9 - Anatol Rapoport on How to Criticize

Anatol Rapoport was a mathematical psychologist (yes, that's a real field of study!) and is famous for his work on game theory, social network analysis (long before the modern versions), and conflict/peace studies.  He famously created an algorithm for the Prisoner's Dilemna that was both elegant a…

E32: Anatol Rapoport's Man-Made Conflicts - General Systems Theory

This week the Dawdler's take a step back from the previous weeks and dig down behind to examine an example of a general conceptual framework for thinking about systems, identity, and conflict - evolution, memes, and perspectivism; while they examine Anatol Rapoport's 1974 book Conflict in Man-Made …

Podcast 180 – On Argumentation, Fallacies, and Twitter Misery

Anatol Rapoport’s Rules: How to compose a successful critical commentary by Daniel Dennett * You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way. * You should list any points of agree…

Logical Fallacies (Part 1) and How to Avoid Them

The Fresh Perspective Podcast - Episode 27 How’s it going everyone? I’m Nick and you are listening to the Fresh Perspective Podcast. The Human Mind is astonishingly complex, an impressive product of natural selection, and humanity’s greatest asset as a species. But if our brains had a “default mode…

Episode 162 - (REWIND) Anatol Rapoport on How to Criticize

This week, we revisit one of my favorite episodes about Rapoport's Rules for critical commentary.  I still struggle with this to this very day.  I hope this challenges you as much as it does me.  

Polarization and Civil Disorder with Omar McDoom

What happens when a polarized society turns violent? In Rwanda, decades of tension between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups came to a head in a Civil War that, seemingly overnight, devolved into one of the bloodiest genocides of the 20th century. With concerns about a potential civil war in the Uni…

900. How to Argue Better: Steel Manning, Straw Manning, and the Difference That Costs You Information

Brian breaks down two terms that get thrown around loosely and are worth understanding precisely: the straw man and the steel man. One of them is a trap most leaders fall into daily without any bad intent, usually because they're moving fast and their brain compresses what someone said into somethi…