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Most non-academic arguments resolve to value differences, not false assumptions. And people often feel very vulnerable when they feel like somebody’s making an
by swatcoder 4y ago
Most non-academic arguments resolve to value differences, not false assumptions. And people often feel very vulnerable when they feel like somebody’s making an effort to expose and challenge their values.
Much of the time, the nonsense is there to keep things civil: you rehash tired tropes to talk around the issue for a while, get tired, and then somebody buys the next round of beers.
- verdagon 4y agoWell put, I've also had it boil down to value differences pretty often. The nice thing about steelmanning is that you can identify those value differences more quickly. One time I was in an argument that was looking to get pretty heated, but with steelmanning I was able to find the underlying value difference, point out that we disagreed on it, and then we just kind of sat there in awkward silence for a second and moved on to play Starcraft. It was a good day.