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

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Comment author: MugaSofer 17 January 2014 01:45:51AM 2 points [-]

I sort of see most Reactionary positions as already being steelmen - putting beliefs that most people think are based on superstitious, bigoted, backwards modes of reasoning into consequentialist, logical, LW-style rhetoric.

... and then finding the steelman so persuasive you convert to the other side.

"Reactionary" seems to me like basically meaning "far-right, but smart".

Zing!