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Hewnam's avatar

Scott Alexander has already invented a term for it, the "Non-central fallacy" your term is less stuffy, but also too general imo

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncentral-fallacy-the-worst-argument-in-the-world

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Ryan's avatar

Well said brother

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Alex's avatar

He is back! My first introduction to his content was through this topic. I instantly fell in love

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OldManFlappyNuts👹's avatar

WE ARE SO BACK

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OldManFlappyNuts👹's avatar

WE NEED TTS ENABLED RYAN

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