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SilasBarta comments on Applied art of rationality: Richard Feynman steelmanning his mother's concerns - Less Wrong
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Right, except yours missed out on the whole "make it a better argument that you're refuting" thing.
I don't see how the following conversation is NOT an example of Richard steelmanning.
Mom: You could get bubonic plague!
Richard: (refutes that concern, and then...) A more reasonable concern would be my getting Tuberculosis. Here are the reasons I can't...
As I said above, I'm not doing steelmanning here, so comparing this to what they actually said is irrelevant.