billswift comments on How can I argue without people online and not come out feeling bad? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 01 June 2012 04:36:12PM *  2 points [-]

The modified theory is that one should sometimes expose themselves to high-quality counter-arguments, etc.

You should always expose yourself to high-quality counter-arguments; after all, you might be wrong. That is the major reason I post anything online. I am too autistic to really be very convincing about anything, in person I tend to be anti-convincing (if that's a useful term), so I have learned to keep my mouth shut.

Comment author: jhuffman 01 June 2012 04:49:48PM 3 points [-]

You probably shouldn't spend 100% of your time exploring even very high quality counter arguments. Rather, you should probably spend some time on it.

Comment author: billswift 01 June 2012 05:00:15PM *  0 points [-]

You should at least consider them, at least if you aren't getting too many. But my biggest problem, and I suspect a large problem for most people, isn't too much good feedback, it's too little.