alexflint comments on The "show, don't tell" nature of argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alexflint 27 March 2010 12:04:54PM 1 point [-]

The most appropriate way of conducting an argument is in most cases to simply state your belief X...

By what criteria do you judge this to be the most "appropriate way"? I think that any such code of conduct should be subject to an expected utility maximisation framework, and it's not clear to me that this particular code stands up.