lukeprog comments on Plant Seeds of Rationality - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 10 March 2011 05:51PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 10 March 2011 06:13:28PM 13 points [-]

It's not that people change their position during the conversation. It's that a few of them realize later that they didn't have a good reply, and they think about it.

It's hard to measure this, but it has happened to me many times, and I like to generalize from one example.

Comment author: David_Gerard 10 March 2011 09:39:48PM 3 points [-]

This actually works on me lots and lots. Slowly, but it does.