...people have already set up their fallback arguments once the soldier of ‘...’ has been knocked down.
Is this really good phrasing or did you manage to naturally think that way? If you do it automatically: I would like to do it too.
It often takes me a long time to recognize an argument war. Until that moment, I’m confused as to how anyone could be unfazed by new information X w.r.t. some topic. How do you detect you’re not having a discussion but are walking on a battlefield?
Similarly, so the problem with this aldehyde-vitrification process is that it’s both too good at fixing everything in place and it’s not good enough at preserving information? It’s a con job despite offering far greater transparency into whether it’ll work? We know the process is quack science so it’s a con job and oh, we already know the process works so it’s a con job? It’ll never work and we know this a priori because a copy of you isn’t you? Each stroke against cryonics might seem reasonable or even probable on its own, but in total, like the 13th stroke of the clock which discredits all the previous ones’ accuracy, they show what’s really going on.
Is this really good phrasing or did you manage to naturally think that way? If you do it automatically: I would like to do it too.
It often takes me a long time to recognize an argument war. Until that moment, I’m confused as to how anyone could be unfazed by new information X w.r.t. some topic. How do you detect you’re not having a discussion but are walking on a battlefield?
Yes, I was referring to Eliezer’s essay there. I liked my little flourish there, so I’m glad someone noticed.
In this case it’s easy when you look over all the comments on HN and elsewhere. It’s like when Yvain is simultaneously accused of being racist Neo-reactionary scum and a Marxist SJW beta-cuckold Jew scum—it’s difficult to see how both sets of accusations could be right simultaneously, so clearly at least one set of accusers are unhinged.
Similarly, so the problem with this aldehyde-vitrification process is that it’s both too good at fixing everything in place and it’s not good enough at preserving information? It’s a con job despite offering far greater transparency into whether it’ll work? We know the process is quack science so it’s a con job and oh, we already know the process works so it’s a con job? It’ll never work and we know this a priori because a copy of you isn’t you? Each stroke against cryonics might seem reasonable or even probable on its own, but in total, like the 13th stroke of the clock which discredits all the previous ones’ accuracy, they show what’s really going on.