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Comment author: buybuydandavis 05 May 2016 11:40:13AM 1 point [-]

Yet given that we are not always fully rational and strategic in our social engagements, it is easy to slip up within debate mode and orient toward winning instead of uncovering the truth.

To be fully rational is to orient toward winning.

Me, I'm not fully rational. I'm a moron. I typically do what you suggest instead - orienting toward truth (epistemic truth). It's taken me decades to realize the foolishness of that, but it is still my natural inclination.

-- Recovering Truthaholic

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 05 May 2016 05:57:26PM 0 points [-]

I agree that there are definitely situations where orienting toward the truth is not winning, although they are rare. The technique here is specifically for use in the vast majority of situations when orienting toward the truth is optimal.

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