Luke_A_Somers comments on Open thread, Jul. 25 - Jul. 31, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 27 July 2016 01:25:42PM 2 points [-]

I think redefining problems and approximation are both huge. I didn't mean a complete ranking, just fleshing out and giving more life to certain elements after the list is done. Pointing out how big a deal they are. These are important failures in the argument. In a way it comes across as a kind of reverse Gish Gallop - you have a bunch of really really strong arguments, and by putting them in a list the impression is weakened.