thomblake comments on How to Not Lose an Argument - Less Wrong

109 Post author: Yvain 19 March 2009 01:07AM

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Comment author: thomblake 15 December 2011 03:48:22AM *  0 points [-]

How is this an uncontroversial claim!

No one has argued against it.

What proof have you made of this claim.

None.

It is uncontroversial to you because everyone involved in this conversation (excluding me) has accepted this premise.

Yes. By the way, you both asked a question above and asserted its answer. You could have saved yourself some time.

Ask yourself the fundamental question of rationality.

Was this an attempt at a tu quoque? You were advancing a proposition, and I was clarifying the request for you to show your work.

All they see is you/people like you calling a part of them "vulgar."

I don't believe I've done this, and I'm not sure what you mean by "people like you". Was that supposed to be racist / sexist?

My argument is not that people are unable to part with beliefs, but that 1.) it is harder and 2.) they don't want to.

That sounds roughly like my #2 above, which is what I noted Yvain and Eliezer did not advance in the relevant articles.