Recently @soylentqueen gave me the tiniest of glimpses into the world of competitive policy debate and oh wow I am still a naive idiot about this subculture but I am SO! FASCINATED!
First! Some of them make arguments at ~six trillion WPM?? Please listen:https://youtu.be/WlatopR63e0?t=957 …
This seems more like "its own thing"—like its own game / art form—than like what I think of as argumentation? But maybe if I slow down all the words and listen carefully, these arguments are coherent, compelling, meaning-dense, etc? Maybe my sense of argumentation is broken?
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Interesting, I had never really thought about it in those terms; as a practice completely independent and apart from argumentation. Let me ask Lingxi about that...
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Lingxi insists that debate really is about making quality arguments, and that most of the time that's what you get. Which seems consistent with how most debaters I know talk about it.
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