Will any of them admit that they were wrong, sans rebuttal? So many commenters here ghost as soon as the flaws in their argument are illuminated… It’s a demonstration of their unwillingness to admit fault, which might be related to why they like to frequent a website claiming to absolve them of error—“I must be correct, when I give hand-waving dismissals and I don’t account for the details, because I’m a regular of LessWrong.” Your site does a worse job of catching fallacious reasoning than the philosophy site I moderated 25 years ago, as a middle-schooler. You’re not less wrong than we were; you’re a huge step down in quality.
Will any of them admit that they were wrong, sans rebuttal? So many commenters here ghost as soon as the flaws in their argument are illuminated… It’s a demonstration of their unwillingness to admit fault, which might be related to why they like to frequent a website claiming to absolve them of error—“I must be correct, when I give hand-waving dismissals and I don’t account for the details, because I’m a regular of LessWrong.” Your site does a worse job of catching fallacious reasoning than the philosophy site I moderated 25 years ago, as a middle-schooler. You’re not less wrong than we were; you’re a huge step down in quality.