shokwave comments on On Debates with Trolls - Less Wrong

22 Post author: prase 12 April 2011 08:46AM

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Comment author: shokwave 13 April 2011 05:39:25PM 3 points [-]

Responding to curi was good training. I found myself discovering, for myself, what levels parts of my understanding were at - automatically seeing exactly where he went wrong, or being able to derive from my web of beliefs a principle that was violated... and I could go on.

Point is, I fed the trolls because it was good exercise.