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39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2007 06:35PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 02 October 2007 11:39:46PM 6 points [-]

Many of you seem to think there is an axiom of reasoning that says the persuasiveness of an argument must be independent of what you know about the process that produced that argument. There is no such axiom, nor should there be.