christopherj comments on Arguments and relevance claims - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 05 May 2014 04:49PM

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Comment author: christopherj 06 May 2014 12:00:06AM 1 point [-]

Summary: Agreeing with people who insufficiently ironman an argument, will be treated as agreeing that the argument is complete rubbish.

Comment author: christopherj 06 May 2014 12:11:21AM 0 points [-]

And I expect the reason is that people who insufficiently ironman an argument are either more interested in the argument's technical correctness, or more interested in discrediting the claim.