I randomly found something that sums up an issue I've had with Slate Star Codex. This is about an SSC post responding to Arthur Chu https://www.jefftk.com/p/lying-for-the-cause …pic.twitter.com/j5swCti04c
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And that's the whole thing, under the Scott approach nothing is ever fucking finished, you can never say "the debate has been won" (in fact saying that is one of those "appeals to irrationality" they hate so much - who says the debate has been won, who has the right)
We've got to dig up the moldering corpse of 1930s eugenics, rusty calipers in hand, for yet another go-round
my point is something like this--no matter the format, you can always try to game that format rather than just have a discussion aimed at figuring out the good ideas this is obvious in formal debates, but anyone who spent time on message boards knows they are also gameable
so while in debate you might have to literally speak very quickly yet clearly, on message boards it's more a matter of posting stamina, of being able to drown the other side in content, to flood the thread bandwidth beyond what anyone else wants to keep up with
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