gwern comments on The failure of counter-arguments argument - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 July 2013 01:38PM

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Comment author: gwern 15 July 2013 03:39:46AM 1 point [-]

I feel obligated to point out that the backfire effect, even in the original paper, applied only to a few zealots, and not everyone and not relatively moderate subjects. So your obvious joke is not itself consistent with the paper.