loqi comments on Conversation Halters - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 February 2010 03:00PM

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Comment author: loqi 20 February 2010 08:07:01PM 3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: timtyler 20 February 2010 09:00:27PM *  2 points [-]

Yes - that was mostly the point. Terminating the debate can be a sensible thing to do sometimes. RobinZ makes a similar point.