Hence the fundamental premise of *Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality* is, I suggest, in bad faith: Yudkowsky wants to present the *appearance* of logical disputation and dialectical materialism (by writing fiction about it) without any actual willingness to risk his ideas in debate.
#Debate therefore has become a doublethinkful, deceitful word in contemporary parlance.
(cont'd)
Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen
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