At the micro level, connor should have immediately proceeded to explain why that mixes is and ought, so that people watching the debate would see the mistake, even if beff was just going to abandon the line of argument as soon as he sees he can’t win using it.
At the macro level, we need someone with skill in highly adversarial debates who also is high skill at explaining things straightforwardly in a way that will be a natural way to communicate for a wide audience. Connor has not been this person consistently enough. He was initially doing pretty well, but it hasn’t held up.
I mean, for the record, he did better than I could. But that’s not saying much, I haven’t even participated in debate clubs before. The only benchmark I’d set is “better than Connor”. Based on some fuck-your-feelings stuff Connor has said, I would expect him to be on board with me being blunt about this. Beff is a world-class propagandist. Rationalist style debate will not work in response to that.
At the micro level, connor should have immediately proceeded to explain why that mixes is and ought, so that people watching the debate would see the mistake, even if beff was just going to abandon the line of argument as soon as he sees he can’t win using it.
At the macro level, we need someone with skill in highly adversarial debates who also is high skill at explaining things straightforwardly in a way that will be a natural way to communicate for a wide audience. Connor has not been this person consistently enough. He was initially doing pretty well, but it hasn’t held up.
I mean, for the record, he did better than I could. But that’s not saying much, I haven’t even participated in debate clubs before. The only benchmark I’d set is “better than Connor”. Based on some fuck-your-feelings stuff Connor has said, I would expect him to be on board with me being blunt about this. Beff is a world-class propagandist. Rationalist style debate will not work in response to that.