That’s part of trying to understand what somebody else thinks. It’s good to make assumptions to prevent a statement to be to vague to be wrong. If you think I made incorrect assumptions feel free to say to correct mistaken assumptions.
Now you have made a general point that can be easily argued both ways.
Tell me the strongest counter-arguments you can think of against what you just said.
(I predict you to agonize over this, produce strawmans, and have a strong impulse to dodge my request. Am I wrong?)
Edit: This was a bad way to handle this on my part, and I regret it. The flip side to ChrisitanKl’s statement is probably obvious to anyone reading this (confirmed with a neutral third party), and I wanted to somehow make ChrisitanKl see it too. I don’t know a good way to do this, but what I wrote here was certainly not it.
Notice how I made a successful prediction that you will try to dodge my request.
That happen to be false. You predicted something related but different.
But predicting that people won’t go along with unreasonable requests doesn’t require much skill.
It’s also intersting that you call it dodgin when I ask you to provide reasons for why you think what you recommend is good.
It would be helpful to you, if you want to improve your rationality, as opposed to feeling good.
I don’t see how going along with people who are evasive generally increases my rationality. In general the sequences also recommend against playing devils advocate and don’t see it as raising rationality.
Now you have made a general point that can be easily argued both ways.
Tell me the strongest counter-arguments you can think of against what you just said.
(I predict you to agonize over this, produce strawmans, and have a strong impulse to dodge my request. Am I wrong?)
Edit: This was a bad way to handle this on my part, and I regret it. The flip side to ChrisitanKl’s statement is probably obvious to anyone reading this (confirmed with a neutral third party), and I wanted to somehow make ChrisitanKl see it too. I don’t know a good way to do this, but what I wrote here was certainly not it.
Why do you think that would be helpful?
It seem to me like you don’t want to engage with discussion. As a result it doesn’t me to try to find counter-arguments against what I’m saying.
Notice how I made a successful prediction that you will try to dodge my request.
It would be helpful to you, if you want to improve your rationality, as opposed to feeling good.
Edit: I retract this, since it is not a helpful way to advance the discussion.
That happen to be false. You predicted something related but different. But predicting that people won’t go along with unreasonable requests doesn’t require much skill.
It’s also intersting that you call it dodgin when I ask you to provide reasons for why you think what you recommend is good.
I don’t see how going along with people who are evasive generally increases my rationality. In general the sequences also recommend against playing devils advocate and don’t see it as raising rationality.