arundelo comments on According to Dale Carnegie, You Can't Win an Argument—and He Has a Point - LessWrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 30 November 2013 07:19:21PM 8 points [-]

What has happened many times is I argue with my friend or my parent and "win" while they're defending their position to the teeth. Months later, they present my argument to me as their own as if the previous discussion never happened.

I have known one person for whom this was a deliberate policy. He would never (he said) admit to changing his mind about anything. If he did change his mind as a result of an argument, he would merely cease advocating the view he now thought erroneous, and after some suitable lapse of time, advocate what he now believed, as if he had believed it all along.

Comment author: arundelo 01 December 2013 11:25:49PM 2 points [-]

If you don't mind saying, did you like this guy? Just from this comment, I think he's an asshole, but maybe I'd think differently if I knew him.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 December 2013 10:07:42AM 3 points [-]

I didn't know him personally, he was just on a couple of mailing lists I was on. I don't think I would have cared to.