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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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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6) The question isn't "can we produce global utopia tomorrow?", it's whether the good communities get to locally expand and win over their neighbors, or whether they decay into the same cesspool as eg the YouTube comments section. My writings are a vote for the former.
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