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"Improving people's ability to competitively argue for things they don't believe in seems a hilariously bad idea." Why? One consequence might be to improve you
by rahimnathwani 3y ago
"Improving people's ability to competitively argue for things they don't believe in seems a hilariously bad idea."
Why? One consequence might be to improve your ability to steelman an argument with which you disagree.
- rutierut 3y agoFair point that is useful, but the majority of people never steelman anything, a significant amount of people will even refuse to steelman anything on moral grounds. Strawmanning on the other hand…
- goodpoint 3y agoPushing for competition instead of rational thinking is bad. Learning steelmanning is just one minor benefit.