An extra nuance which isn’t totally relevant to my main hot take of “arguments are often not useless”: I agree with the idea that framing an argument in your head as an attempt to convince someone of something isn’t necessarily the best way to think about it. It’s very easy for arguments to start to feel adversarial, which they ideally shouldn’t be.
This post was requested by Eneasz Brodski on the Bayesian Conspiracy discord.
An extra nuance which isn’t totally relevant to my main hot take of “arguments are often not useless”: I agree with the idea that framing an argument in your head as an attempt to convince someone of something isn’t necessarily the best way to think about it. It’s very easy for arguments to start to feel adversarial, which they ideally shouldn’t be.
This post was requested by Eneasz Brodski on the Bayesian Conspiracy discord.