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Any belief that I can be argued into by a blog post I can also probably be argued out of by a blog post.
That sounds like you're saying that what beliefs you can be argued into is uncorrelated with what's true. I don't think you mean that.
That doesn't necessarily follow from RomeoSteven's remark. It may take more subtle or careful arguing to persuade someone into a belief that is false. So in practice, what beliefs one can be argued into will be correlated with being true.
Oh, so you think RomeoSteven was allowing for varying argument skill in the blog posts in question. That makes sense. Anything I can be argued into by a blog post, I can be argued out of by a blog post, if Omega takes up contrarian blogging. :)