'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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Yeh, I think there's a reasonable point to be made here. Devil's advocate argumentation _can_ be a kind of disingenuous argument from a fixed position rather than a way of being open minded. But that's hard to square with the sweeping statements in the original tweet.
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You have to look at it in the context of today's public sphere, though. Everything—design, attention economy, political structure—is encouraging it but in the empty, gamified form. If nobody ever did it, I might think, yeah let's encourage it. But it's the opposite.
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