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gjm comments on The failure of counter-arguments argument - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: gjm 13 July 2013 01:59:46PM 3 points [-]

I've been trying to discourage people from citing it...

Nononono, don't do that! It'll just make them believe it more strongly.

(The nice thing is that actually your attempts at discouragement will, roughly speaking, work if and only if the discouragement is correct!)