Konkvistador comments on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? - Less Wrong

157 Post author: Yvain 27 August 2012 03:36AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2012 04:37:42PM 32 points [-]

Yvain, here is a challenge. Many of your examples are weak versions of strong right-wing arguments that you do not accept. (by your remark about Schelling fences, it seems you're aware of this). I challenge you to replace each of these examples with a weak version of a strong left-wing argument that you do accept. Since policy debates should not appear one-sided, there should be no shortage of weak arguments "on your side." And it would be an interesting kind of ideological Turing test.

Perhaps I'm wrong about "what side you're on" and you already accept the strong right-wing arguments. In which case you got me, well done!

Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2012 05:35:06PM *  8 points [-]

Excellent idea. It would be beneficial to how the community deals with politics, something that I've been very concerned about recently, to see this written out.

Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 28 August 2012 09:00:10AM 0 points [-]

Some tentative to sanitize political debates needs more data. In this post, one common strategy is criticized, I suposse are others, but doubt someone will write a sequence about it.