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Thinking about various other conversation-stoppers, these come to mind:
Announce that you are leaving the conversation;
Declare that the conversation is insignificant;
Declare that the conversation is a digression;
Declare that the conversation is off-topic;
Declare that the issue has been resolved elsewhere;
Declare that the conversation has stooped to ad-hominen;
Invoke Godwin's law;
I have encountered this many, many times on Less Wrong. And it is often not strictly true.
You are only saying that because you haven't read The Sequences. ;-)
But most of those items are perfectly reasonable in many contexts. The items on Eliezer's list strike me as being more reliable indicators of flawed thought.
Yes - that was mostly the point. Terminating the debate can be a sensible thing to do sometimes. RobinZ makes a similar point.