Look I'm all for this *but it doesn't work against propaganda*
@slatestarcodex you might want steelmanning, charity, good faith, but we don't live in that world anymore than we live in a world where material needs are met and discrimination is gone.http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/08/varieties-of-argumentative-experience/ …
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4) But there's also the opportunity for kind people to build communities with other kind people that don't have the same dog-eat-dog norms as eg high finance. I've lived in some of those communities and I'm grateful those people didn't wait for Utopia before trying to help.
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5) In the same way, I think that right now, there are lots of communities with really good discourse norms where people change their minds and try to seek the truth together. I think science is one such community. I hope I the comment section of my blog can be another.
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