Vladimir_Nesov comments on Charitable Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 04 August 2011 02:49:29AM *  1 point [-]

An informational balance where one side presents no argument, and the other side presents an argument with a pre-written bottom line.

Suppose that the former "side" also presents its "bottom line". Now you have two contradictory "bottom lines", by assumption statements disconnected from the fact they purport to elicit. What next? They are, by assumption, equally useless. If every question of truth has two "sides" that represent perfect rationalizations for the two alternative answers, how can anything be known?