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40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 August 2011 07:16AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 26 August 2011 06:59:51AM 2 points [-]

If your goal is to win an argument or appear righteous, then your strategy is alright.

No, it clearly isn't. He left himself wide open to this sort of attack.

More fundamentally he justified and explained himself. He did it reasonably well and a good justification can work but it is almost never the optimal strategy.