Cyan comments on Typical Mind and Politics - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Yvain 12 June 2009 12:28PM

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Comment author: Cyan 17 June 2009 08:49:56PM 0 points [-]

The point is to correctly and explicitly state the logical flaws in your positions.

Okay. You were always free to do exactly that, instead of asserting that Yvain was

try[ing] to seize the last word and then declare that the conversation is now over

when he was actually ceding the last word and declaring the conversation over just as soon as you were done replying to his last substantive comment.

Comment author: Annoyance 18 June 2009 01:48:55PM -1 points [-]

Ahem:

I'm just trying to say that your particular argument here that all coercive methods are bad doesn't hold any water.

Refusing to 'contribute' further rules out acknowledging that the other's position has been misrepresented.

Comment author: Cyan 18 June 2009 03:52:44PM *  2 points [-]

Refusing to 'contribute' further rules out acknowledging that the other's position has been misrepresented.

True but irrelevant. Furthermore, Yvain's failure to acknowledge anything is immaterial what you claim is the point of the conversation, to wit, to accurately recognize and state the validity and invalidity of his arguments, and not to convince him.

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