Does your experience include LW rationalists deploying such a trick?
It’s true that people will dishonestly move goalposts, but at the same time, certain claims really do require proportionally more evidence—and the correct ones can produce that evidence (e.g. quantum “strangeness”, evolutionary theory, etc.).
Such a level of evidence can reasonably be characterized as “ironclad” or “unmistakeable”—and to borrow from EY’s felicitous phrasing, it would take a heck of a lot of evidence to unmistake Mormonism.
Does your experience include LW rationalists deploying such a trick?
It’s true that people will dishonestly move goalposts, but at the same time, certain claims really do require proportionally more evidence—and the correct ones can produce that evidence (e.g. quantum “strangeness”, evolutionary theory, etc.).
Such a level of evidence can reasonably be characterized as “ironclad” or “unmistakeable”—and to borrow from EY’s felicitous phrasing, it would take a heck of a lot of evidence to unmistake Mormonism.