RomeoStevens comments on I Stand by the Sequences - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Grognor 15 May 2012 10:21AM

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 15 May 2012 11:12:37AM -1 points [-]

Any belief that I can be argued into by a blog post I can also probably be argued out of by a blog post.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 15 May 2012 11:35:30AM 7 points [-]

That sounds like you're saying that what beliefs you can be argued into is uncorrelated with what's true. I don't think you mean that.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 15 May 2012 03:02:50PM 2 points [-]

That doesn't necessarily follow from RomeoSteven's remark. It may take more subtle or careful arguing to persuade someone into a belief that is false. So in practice, what beliefs one can be argued into will be correlated with being true.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 15 May 2012 03:13:08PM 2 points [-]

Oh, so you think RomeoSteven was allowing for varying argument skill in the blog posts in question. That makes sense. Anything I can be argued into by a blog post, I can be argued out of by a blog post, if Omega takes up contrarian blogging. :)