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99 Post author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 12:32AM

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Comment author: siodine 16 September 2012 04:02:58PM 4 points [-]

Or, more meta-ly, you're not going to be very persuasive if you ignore pathos and ethos. I think this might be a common failure mode of aspiring rationalists because we feel we shouldn't have to worry about such things, but then we're living in the should-world rather than the real-world.