Does steelmanning improve debating? An experience with childhood spanking
Recently, a friend of mine found out that one of their friends believes in spanking as a form of discipline and practiced it with their children. While the t...
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2022
What does the Flaxman controversy say about the U.S. CDC?
While steelmanning whether children 6 months through 4 years should get the Pfizer vaccine or not, a controversy was highlighted over the Flaxman et al. (202...
Should children aged 6 months through 4 years get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine?
This article steelmans the two main sides of this argument which we’ll call conventional and skeptical.
Our First Steelmen
This post is a bit academic, and will be unlike most other posts, but it seems fitting that our first steelmanning exercise should be to consider potential p...
Welcome to the Steelman Anything Newsletter
Steelmanning is another name for the principle of charity in argumentation that tries to make the strongest possible argument for someone by empathizing with...