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You understand the hypocrisy, then. We rely on this very general & valid strategy in all sorts of real-life real-money situations, but when it comes to discussions of complex important topics? All of sudden it is 100% verboten.
This, it seems to me, is exactly what a underused rationalist cheat would look like.
Can you give an example of something that this change would sanction?