Someone YouOnceKnew

Mar 6, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Eliezer Yudkowsky |Ben Pace |Adam Zerner |Someone YouOnceKnew

My job as a public defender puts me in a weird place. I am my clients’ zealous advocate, but I’m not their marionette. I don’t just roll into court to parrot whatever my clients tell me — I make sure I’m not re-shoveling bullshit. So for my sake and theirs, I do my homework. I corroborate. I investigate. A significant portion of my job ironically mirrors that of a police detective.

Feb 12, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Rob Bensinger |Dragon God |David Hornbein |Someone YouOnceKnew

How about "hurting a person or deminishing their credibility, or the credibility of their argument, without using a rational argument"? "Hurting a person" still seems too vague to me (sometimes people are "hurt" just because you disagreed with them on a claim of fact), "Diminishing...