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0 pointsdeadpannini4y ago0 comments

There's a risk that steel-manning can veer into condescension, but the real goal is to find a version of an argument that all parties agree represents it accurately and fairly.

(As opposed to wasting time on superficial contradictions, reductio ad absurdum variations, and other hazards of bad faith conflicts.)

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TimPC4y ago

I'd argue that if one side is using bad faith techniques and creating a bad faith conflict, no amount of steel manning is going to make the debate into a good debate. You need good faith efforts from all sides to have a good result. Nothing can replace this.

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