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What would steelmanning Young Earth Creationism even look like? Young Earth Creationism is already the playdoughman* version of Creationism. If you steelman it, it wouldn't be Young Earth anymore.
*If I'm never remembered for anything else in the rationalosphere, I would like to be known as the creator of the term "playdoughmanning".
Please stop with the prismatticmanning of tortured neologisms. The ensuing syllabilistic explosion might pose a memetic hazard (Great Filter = Tower of Babble).
It would be amusing if the single primary reason that the universe is not buzzing with life and civilization is that any sufficiently advanced society develops terminology and jargon too complex to be comprehensible, and inevitably collapses because of that.
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That's what the Great Filter is, no?
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I don't dispute this, except that this is also how I feel about some of the views some other people in the rationalist community think deserve to be steelmanned.
Indeed, is there ever a case where it isn't at least plausible that the steelman version of view X wouldn't be view X anymore?
Aliens Did It? Seems to be used in that capacity sometimes.
That's a real view so weak it resembles a strawman of a real belief, yes?