Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Logical Rudeness - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 January 2010 06:48AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 January 2010 07:53:04PM 2 points [-]

The only community standard that seems to be required is that people are willing, or preferably eager, to update if the evidence or balance of argument (given limited cognition) changes.

Or that people endorse that idea in the abstract enough to adopt standards about logical rudeness which can be recognized and applied in the heat of argument. People are less likely to evade that way if they know everyone else will say "you lost".