gothgirl420666 comments on Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity - Less Wrong

88 Post author: gothgirl420666 16 January 2014 06:35AM

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Comment author: Khoth 13 January 2014 08:37:05AM 15 points [-]

There's another way it can go wrong:

"You claim X, which sounds pretty bizarre to me so I'll charitably assume you meant a weaker version X' that fits in my worldview, and I'll forget that you originally claimed an argument for X."

Comment author: gothgirl420666 14 January 2014 08:15:30AM 2 points [-]

That's pretty much the same thing as my point #1.