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

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Comment author: MugaSofer 17 January 2014 03:34:52AM 0 points [-]

Both points - the lack of consistency, and privileging the hypothesis.

(In fairness, it's more than "tribal affliliations". There are probably all sorts of biases creating this particular danger in being half a rationalist.)