Ad hominem attacks feel like devastating counterarguments, but they’re just changing the subject. Once you learn to spot them, you can’t unsee how much political discourse is people yelling about each other instead of engaging with ideas.
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When an argument sounds reasonable but feels wrong, rebuild it as a syllogism. The hidden premise is usually where it falls apart. Works on AI doomers and everyone else.
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Every argument has hidden assumptions connecting evidence to conclusions. Learning to find them – and evaluate them – is how you stop accepting bad reasoning from your own side.
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