ciphergoth comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong
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No, winning is good but losing is also useful - we ought to permanently eliminate from the corpus any argument that fails. Even if it wouldn't fail against a blockhead without the intellectual muscle to finesse a counter.
Losing is a lot more informative if we build on what we learned last time, don't you think?