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

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Comment author: Apprentice 13 January 2014 11:04:31AM *  23 points [-]

Quoth Yvain:

I no longer try to steelman BETA-MEALR [Ban Everything That Anyone Might Experience And Later Regret] arguments as utilitarian. When I do, I just end up yelling at my interlocutor, asking how she could possibly get her calculations so wrong, only for her to reasonably protest that she wasn’t make any calculations and what am I even talking about?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 January 2014 08:20:19PM 3 points [-]

Thanks. I didn't believe the original post without examples.