wedrifid comments on Conversation Halters - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: wedrifid 24 February 2010 07:20:00AM 0 points [-]

Appeal to lack of intelligence - This is quite unlikely to happen in this blog comments, but someone could easily declare incapacity to understand subject X in order to stop someone else from arguing Y, given both know that X is required knowledge to grasp the persuasiveness of Y.

This is one that is sometimes best conveyed through action rather than stated explicitly.