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14 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 July 2013 01:38PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 July 2013 08:54:25PM 2 points [-]

Yes. And I think it's a reasonable assumption.

Comment author: Decius 12 July 2013 03:02:15AM 2 points [-]

I was just pointing out a limit on the applicability of the heuristic; if someone controls the discourse, they can allow only bad criticisms of their arguments enter the discourse.