The Dark Arts

lsusrIt is my understanding that you won all of your public forum debates this year. That's very impressive. I thought it would be interesting to discuss some of the techniques you used.

LyrongolemOf course! So, just for a brief overview for those who don't know, public forum is a 2v2 debate format, usually on a policy topic. One of the more interesting ones has been the last one I went to, where the topic was "Resolved: The US Federal Government Should Substantially Increase its Military Presence in the Arctic".

Now, the techniques I'll go over here are related to this topic specifically, but they would also apply to other forms of debate, and argumentation in general really. For the sake of simplicity, I'll call it "ultra-BS".

So, most of us are familiar with 'regular' BS. The idea is the other person says something, and you just reply [...]

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First published:
December 19th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/djWftXndJ7iMPsjrp/the-dark-arts

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