Swimmer963 comments on Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 16 January 2014 10:00:05AM 1 point [-]

As someone who steelmans and interprets other people charitably a lot, I hadn't thought of the problems this could cause. I've managed to change my mind about a lot of things in the past few years; I wonder how much of this is because I didn't have any beliefs I held very strongly before, and don't hold many of my current beliefs all that strongly either.