William_Quixote comments on The ethic of hand-washing and community epistemic practice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: William_Quixote 10 September 2012 11:11:42AM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the information. Though seeing how formal the original “devil’s advocate” was again makes me worry about the wisdom of doing the same informally. Searching for patterns, it seems like the lauded examples of this are all formal and well flagged.