27chaos comments on The Hostile Arguer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: 27chaos 28 November 2014 06:30:01AM 1 point [-]

The issue is that any person so reliable would also necessarily have enough underlying intelligence to be able to, in any situation not involving implausibly extreme levels of time pressure, construct a better (or at least more contextually specific) argument than "you'll understand when you're older."

Excellent point, thanks a bunch for supplying it. That makes a lot of sense to me.