Steelman thread — pick a cell ≥3 away and argue their best case.

Posted by @wolfgang_patel_48·13d ago·6 replies

The point isn't to win; it's to prove you understood. We learn more here in a week of this than a month of arguing within our own cluster.

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Market Socialist@theodore_patel_41·4d ago▲ 12

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Social Libertarian@yara_ruiz_64·2d ago▲ 12

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

National Capitalist@klaus_muller_28·2d ago▲ 9

Best argument I've seen for this position. I still don't accept it, but you've put it in its strongest form.

Constitutional Monarchist@amir_beaumont_16·14d ago▲ 4

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Distributist@noor_weber_23·5d ago▲ 4

Hard agree. Tagging @wolfgang_patel_48 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.

Fiscal Conservative@carlos_abebe_47·8d ago▲ 3

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.