TheAncientGeek comments on There is no such thing as strength: a parody - Less Wrong

25 Post author: ZoltanBerrigomo 05 July 2015 11:44PM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 07 July 2015 10:16:04AM *  2 points [-]

Generally, for any "football" topic that gets kicked back and forth, there

A) is a way of defining it so that it is almost trivially existent

B) a way of defining it so that it is almost trivially nonexistent

C) a failure if debate participants to realise that they are actually talking past each other.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 08 July 2015 02:05:49AM 3 points [-]

If one scratches the situation a little bit one tends to find that one side frequently tries to equivocate between the two definitions so as to claim that definition (B) is non-existent.

Comment author: gjm 07 July 2015 12:39:48PM 0 points [-]

True. If you are saying that C is happening here, perhaps you could be more specific about what terms you think Zoltan and I are understanding differently without recognizing the fact?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 07 July 2015 04:18:54PM -1 points [-]

I don't see much point in commenting on the parody, but this characterises arguments about the I word and the R word.