This is really, really, really bad. @HeatherEHeying @BretWeinsteinhttps://twitter.com/michaelmoreno2k/status/1188175155240947712 …
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Replying to @webdevMason @HeatherEHeying
Proceed with extreme caution. "Debate" as a formal school activity is a very strange phenomenon. The fact of a position being sophistry is immaterial. And there are strong hints in the full recording that the positions being advanced by the prof are put forward as an exercise.
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Replying to @webdevMason @HeatherEHeying
If that's what it is, then the professor is loosely playing the role of an opposing team, advancing arguments his students might face. He uses some terms that suggest that's what's going on. That said, the exercise feels way off target, but 'off target' isn't the same as bigoted.
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Replying to @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying
"Off target" or even "bigoted" seem sort of beside the point, except on an exceedingly tilted playing field — the arguments are *really weak.* Is that not enough, in the context of formal debate?
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Replying to @webdevMason @HeatherEHeying
As to the narrower point I think you are asking about, a transparently weak argument is not likely to be a winner, BUT obvious sophistry can be, and often is, in a formal academic debate.
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Replying to @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying
I guess I'm still left wondering why we're making a subsidized, trophied event of creating Terrible People.
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I can see a real purpose to advancing a formal space for good faith argumentation from a variety of axioms, personally held or otherwise, and secondarily elevating practiced charisma on those terms. But if it's just about arbitrary popular evil as an art, why?
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Replying to @webdevMason @HeatherEHeying
Because Hell can not produce lawyers fast enough to satisfy demand so we have resorted to minting them here on Earth.
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