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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 July 2013 08:54:26AM 1 point [-]

Similarly if a hundred experts make the same flawed counterargument, there would be rapidly diminishing returns after the first few.

Actually, no: because this would be a sign that they aren't capable of finding a better counterargument!

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 11 July 2013 10:33:52AM 1 point [-]

I thought of that. If they all think of the same thing, they could be going for something obvious but not quite right. Something that pops out at this class of expert and so they don't feel the need to go any further. But if you have an answer to that, that doesn't mean there isn't a remaining problem not available to surface inspection.