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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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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7) I understand it is really tempting just to try to get "our" side to spread better propaganda. But are you a better propagandist than Breitbart? If not, you lose. If so, you win by coincidence, and your side loses later when the coincidence reverses.
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