Calvin comments on Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Calvin 13 January 2014 07:25:39AM *  4 points [-]

It is also likely not written in the way they understand the world. I mean If charity is assuming that the other person is saying something interesting and worth consideration, such approach strikes me as an exact opposite:

Here, this is your bad, unoriginal argument, but I changed it into something better.

I mean, if you are better at arguing for the other side than your opposition, why do you even speak with them?