If you encourage the procedural, gamified and contrarianist version that "devil's advocate" often becomes, and don't pay attention to preparation, substance and framework (like these platforms), you don't get the critical thinking you want in the world but "let's make shit up."
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I usually avoid quote tweets exactly because of this problem and I am doing it here on purpose, tbh. I could do it in a much worse fashion, I know the game. I am also kinda good at devil's advocate, kinda sadly tbh, and I try always to stop myself because it dulls my thinking.
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The original tweet uses words like 'no point', 'nothing good comes from' and characterizes it as making the argument from 'evil'. Perhaps the following tweets are making a more nuanced point but it's hard to square with the o.g tweet (like an article with a clickbait headline).
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To try to steelman, perhaps it's hard to work with high school students to get them to explore arguments they don't hold. I could totally understand that to be true. And I wonder if steelmanning is a better defined variation of the same thing that could be taught instead.
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Steelmanning has many of the same problems as the devil's advocate, with the extra complication that the people who steelman don't realise the risks at all.
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