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philh comments on Open thread, August 4 - 10, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: philh 06 August 2014 02:46:57PM 0 points [-]

That was probably me. I don't think I handled the situation particularly gracefully, but I really didn't want to continue that conversation, and I couldn't see whether the person in question was wearing a crocker's rules tag.

I don't remember my actual words, but I think I wasn't trying to go for "nothing could possibly convince me", so much as "nothing said in this conversation could convince me".

Comment author: ChristianKl 06 August 2014 03:22:09PM 0 points [-]

It's still more graceful than the "I think you are wrong based on my heuristics but I can't tell you where you are wrong" that Pablo Stafforini advocates.