It is pretty clear to me that Devil’s Advocacy is valuable for precisely the reasons in the link Eliezer added at the end of the post (Brandon). I’m not sure we should, therefore, be automatically linking to the piece in response to instances of Devil’s advocacy until and unless someone writes a complementary post rebutting Brandon’s.
The only reason I haven’t posted my draft “Against Devil’s Advocacy” is that someone beat me to the punch and I didn’t want to make a redundant post. I endorce links to ‘Against Devil’s Advocacy’ precisely because it is an important subset of ‘Advocacy’ with all the related problems.
The only reason I haven’t posted my draft “Against Devil’s Advocacy” is that someone beat me to the punch and I didn’t want to make a redundant post. I endorce links to ‘Against Devil’s Advocacy’ precisely because it is an important subset of ‘Advocacy’ with all the related problems.