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@Meyerweb (Not sure if that was really a question or a snark, both are understandabl, but if the former, “steelmanning” is a catch phrase in internet rationalist communities used to describe the process of constructing the strongest argument you can for an idea that you disagree with — the opposite of “straw manning”. It’s the niche variation of “just to play devil’s advocate” and almost always indicates that the ideas that follow will be a sad mishmash of half-understood evopsych)