What are the ingredients of a good conversation? Does it require a balance between conversational givers and takers or is it simply down to taking an interest in what your interlocutor is saying?

In this week’s podcast, we discuss conversations. We debate whether there is an optimal way to conduct a conversation and put forward a series of explanations based on our own idiosyncratic approaches. We discuss sideways conversations, the rationalist movement and share some of our most memorable conversations.

A few things we mentioned in this podcast:

- LessWrong: Conversations https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/conversation-topic

- Good conversations have lots of doorknobs https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs

- Do conversations end when people want them to? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2011809118

- Michael Parkinson interviews Meg Ryan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blpq-Iwu25s

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