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