In casual arguments, it can be tempting to rattle off a bunch of valid points that come to mind.
If you care about winning, it is best to stick with your strongest point. “Who spent more time struggling to argue uphill?” is the heuristic people use to judge who won.
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Throwing out multiple arguments creates a few issues: • More surface area for misunderstanding which can distract or be misunderstood as you being wrong • More risk you throw out an uncached idea. Unfortunately, play-to-win arguments usually penalize long pauses for thought
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In a casual play-to-win adversarial argument, the desire to rattle off a bunch of arguments is probably your confirmation bias engine screwing you. From your perspective: more plausible evidence in favor? Great. To someone else, the new point’s framing is neutral at best
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rattling off relevant facts that come to mind without evaluating seems more cooperative-learning than argumentative to me
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Like a verbal pro-con list
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yeah like some of these could be fake and wrong I’m open
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