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36 Post author: David_J_Balan 02 November 2009 12:44AM

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Comment author: David_J_Balan 03 November 2009 08:59:54PM 0 points [-]

Like so many things in the general OB/LW project, it's always possible that an otherwise sound practice will steer you wrong. If you come up with a good reason to downweight certain types of bad arguments, you might end up using a similar reason as justification to ignore good but unpalatable arguments. That's why it's hard.