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1. Argue that yummyfajitas is known to often be wrong, and in fact terribly wrong, thus justifying bias against acceptance of any views advanced by yummyfajitas
by ubernostrum 10y ago
1. Argue that yummyfajitas is known to often be wrong, and in fact terribly wrong, thus justifying bias against acceptance of any views advanced by yummyfajitas.
2. Spread this now rationally-supported (on base rate grounds) bias among many people.
3. Find some time later that yummyfajitas' views are overwhelmingly rejected by persons reached in step 2.
4. Declare bias established in step 1 to be retroactively objectively correct after observing how yummyfajitas' posts fare with observers, and note that even yummyfajitas will not be able to argue with it, as the correctness will be demonstrated by yummyfajitas' own argument in comment above.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoThe chain of reasoning you advocate for is circular - the validity of step 1 is dependent on the conclusion in step 4, but step 4 depends on step 1. The same is not true of the chain of reasoning I suggested.