Jayson_Virissimo comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 22 January 2012 09:21:12AM *  0 points [-]

Agreed. Probabilistic arguments are necessarily invalid (except when the probability of every relevant premise is equal to 1).

Is this an example of the persuasion tactic advocated (or described) recently? That is, you open with 'agreed' and then clearly say something that would undermine drethelin's whole comment.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 22 January 2012 09:34:06AM *  0 points [-]

Is this an example of the persuasion tactic advocated (or described) recently. That is, you open with 'agreed' and then clearly say something that would undermine drethelin's whole comment.

No. I affirm all 4 sentences in drethelin's comment. Also, I maintain that nothing in drethelin's comment contradicts anything I have said in this discussion.

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