RobinZ comments on Logical Rudeness - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: RobinZ 28 April 2010 12:58:42AM 2 points [-]

Are you offering to argue for a position you do not sincerely hold? Because there are lots of people in the world who disagree with you about something if all you want is to practice arguing.

Comment author: byrnema 28 April 2010 01:33:44AM 2 points [-]

I suppose I was making some small gamble that I would be able to relate to the friend's position. Although this could bear some objective testing, I think that I am pretty flexible about what I can be sincere about. Also, I have some undeveloped ideas about this issue and I thought it would be interesting to develop them, in one direction or the other.