Extremely strong and good whatabouting right here.https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/962716532685099008 …
Steelmanning is when you try to interpret your opponent's position in as defensible a way as possible before critquing it. The opposite of strawmanning.
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"A straw man is a misrepresentation of someone's position or argument that is easy to defeat: a "steel man" is an improvement of someone's position or argument that is harder to defeat than their originally stated position or argument." https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Steel_man
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man my head is all over the place. I misread here: http://quillette.com/2018/02/10/our-tribes-and-tribulations … Crossed up the context reference and reversed it.
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thank you for bearing with me and correcting my mistake
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We DO need a good term for "X is wrong, therefore Y is correct" though
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