sketerpot comments on The Truth about Scotsmen, or: Dissolving Fallacies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sketerpot 09 December 2010 02:09:33AM *  0 points [-]

I have managed to get people to switch to marginally less ridiculous views, yes. It's limited success, but still impressive considering how hard it is to get people to change their minds at all.

Your approach may work better, though. It certainly sounds plausible. I'll have to try that next time I'm in a type 1 argument.