mattnewport comments on Eight Short Studies On Excuses - Less Wrong

210 Post author: Yvain 20 April 2010 11:01PM

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Comment author: mattnewport 22 April 2010 06:17:05PM 1 point [-]

That's not what she did. She explicitly declared that she was done with the argument, not that she won it - by standard debating rules, she forfeited.

Umm, hang on, she 'forfeited' prior to posting a 500 word reply. I'd say that in the absence of further data it is reasonable to conclude that the forfeit was revoked.

Comment author: RobinZ 22 April 2010 08:34:54PM 5 points [-]

Her reply was not an addition to the previous conversation - it was a meta remark.