SilasBarta comments on Applied art of rationality: Richard Feynman steelmanning his mother's concerns - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 10 June 2013 09:15:01PM 0 points [-]

I see that now. It didn't help that Luke_A_Somers, in defending what he did as steelmanning, kept insisting that he was "making the original argument worse".

(In any case, I don't think TB was the "steelest" man you could make here, nor the mother's real rejection.)