I guess I didn’t mean that he didn’t steelman my argument, I meant that he didn’t steelman the things that he was objecting to. For example, he could have noted that I did give an example of the type that he seems to have been looking for, rather than focusing on the fact that the Penrose example isn’t of the type that he was looking for. I agree that there’s substantial overlap between this and the principle of charity.
I guess I didn’t mean that he didn’t steelman my argument, I meant that he didn’t steelman the things that he was objecting to. For example, he could have noted that I did give an example of the type that he seems to have been looking for, rather than focusing on the fact that the Penrose example isn’t of the type that he was looking for. I agree that there’s substantial overlap between this and the principle of charity.