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Luke_A_Somers comments on False Friends and Tone Policing - Less Wrong Discussion

45 Post author: palladias 18 June 2014 06:20PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 19 June 2014 12:24:52PM 2 points [-]

He may be wrong, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a useful conversation, and to do that, you'll need to pick words.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 19 June 2014 11:37:04PM 4 points [-]

In order to have a useful conversation about the topic it will be necessary to challenge his implicit claim. If he insists on making that impossible then its not possible to have a reasonable conversation with him.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 20 June 2014 12:00:05AM 1 point [-]

For certain conversations, yes. Others, no.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 20 June 2014 04:19:34AM 6 points [-]

For certain conversations, yes. Others, no.

For conversations about the topic that don't involve you conceding all points to him, yes.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 20 June 2014 02:32:33PM 2 points [-]

I suggest that these conversations could include whether his way of interpreting that position is correct.

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