diegocaleiro comments on Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate - Less Wrong

132 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 March 2009 08:37AM

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Comment author: Annoyance 20 March 2009 03:28:57PM 2 points [-]

The logical structure of the best argument supporting it, the quality of the evidence in that argument, and the extensiveness of that evidence.

Instead of those things, most of us pay attention to rhetoric and status.

Take a look at high school speech and debate organizations, and the things they stress. What development of skills and techniques do their debates encourage?

Comment author: diegocaleiro 17 December 2010 04:54:37PM 0 points [-]

This "best argument" idea disconsiders the danger of one argument against an army http://lesswrong.com/lw/ik/one_argument_against_an_army/