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Schopenhauer listed 38 tricks for winning arguments and named one the most common. It's choosing the word that already holds your verdict. On AI X, both sides do it, me included. The fix isn't fewer strong words. It's putting the test first.
Steelmanning is the right habit for anyone who argues about AI in public. But improving an opponent's argument past what they said is its own distortion. The test is whether they'd sign your version as theirs.
Kant asked what reason can know before using it to make claims. Peirce asked what difference a belief makes in practice. Applied to AI benchmarks, the two questions give a better test than any leaderboard.