mattnewport comments on The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 19 December 2009 12:13:54AM *  0 points [-]

It seems not entirely unrelated to your issue with advocacy in this context that advocate is also another word for lawyer...

Comment author: wedrifid 19 December 2009 12:42:12AM 0 points [-]

It seems not entirely unrelated to your issue with advocacy in this context that advocate is also another word for lawyer...

I can vaguely recall a conversation here a while back in which someone was advocating a lawyer, judge and bailiff metaphor for rational discourse and also professing devil's advocacy in a nearby context. I suspect I disagreed with him.