OrphanWilde comments on The Fable of the Burning Branch - Less Wrong

-19 Post author: EphemeralNight 08 February 2016 03:20PM

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 09 February 2016 06:04:44PM 3 points [-]

You seem very fond of boasting of how you're manipulating this and forcing that and dark-artsing the other. I feel about this roughly the way you feel about Gleb T's writing.

If I were going to boast, it would be about how you changed your mind on multiple things simultaneously to avoid the obvious feint - and apparently didn't notice. Your arguments at this point are so weak as to fall apart at the touch; "probably harmless" and "small but nonzero chance of harm" are such a weak standard of evidence for moderation that nothing would be permitted to be discussed here. It would be much harder to prove your prior version proved too much - but you did the work for me.

But go on and keep thinking that what I'm doing is boasting.

Comment author: gjm 09 February 2016 08:24:52PM -1 points [-]

You are, not for the first time in this thread, arguing against things I have not said.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 09 February 2016 08:47:09PM 1 point [-]

I didn't argue at all there. I pointed out that your position changed in anticipation of an objection you expected me to raise, to forestall the objection from having merit.

The argument, you see, is already over. You played your part, I played mine, and the audience is looking for a new show, the conclusion for this one already having played out in the background.

Comment author: Kawoomba 11 February 2016 02:57:45PM 0 points [-]

You got me there!