ThisSpaceAvailable 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: ThisSpaceAvailable 24 January 2014 01:04:02AM 1 point [-]

I have found unreasonable opponents to be unreasonably common, and attempts at clarification are quite often ignored, or even elicit hostility, and often are simply exploited.

Comment author: David_Gerard 24 January 2014 05:02:52PM 0 points [-]

This is, of course, true. Nevertheless, "write for the enemy" is still a useful guideline.