'playing devil's advocate' for me is just a colloquial way of signaling that you're exploring a side of the argument that I don't presently support. 'To play devil's advocate, what if we're losing something by switching to remote work?'
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Looking at the original tweet, it seems that there's an assumption that to be a devil's advocate is to make the argument for 'evil'. That's not an assumption I would have made.
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Certainly I'm not the only person to understand it this way:https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play+devil%27s+advocate …
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THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT. It doesn't even have to be all good faith, but it takes a particular kind of work and framework to get something out of it, and fetishizing devil's advocate, especially on these platforms, gets you mindless contrarianism.
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I forgot to ask, what's steel manning?
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Trying to articulate the strongest version of an argument for something to argue against rather than, say, picking the craziest version of the argument from twitter.
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You’re arguing definitions when the original tweet (in my reading) is talking about lived experience. What I take away is that there’s so much gamified argumentation (another form of toxic masculinity) that it demoralizes and inhibits a good faith search for truth.
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I'm not arguing about definitions. I'm observing that she's making clear she's using a different definition of the term than I and most other people would use.
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