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Salutator comments on Change Contexts to Improve Arguments - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: palladias 08 July 2014 03:51PM

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Comment author: Salutator 09 July 2014 01:36:03AM 0 points [-]

You're treating looking for week points in your and the interlocutors belief as basically the same thing. That's almost the opposite of the truth, because there's a trade-off between those two things. If you're totally focused on the second thing, the first one is psychologically near impossible.