People engage more with an argument when they generate its key steps themselves than when the same argument is imposed on them.

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Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.

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• The more an argument asks you to do, the more evidence you should require before doing it. HKHolden Karnofsky18 Aug 2011similar wordingCo-founder of GiveWell
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• Demanding simple answers to hard questions is itself a political harm, not just an intellectual one. KWKen White7 Dec 2023similar wordingCriminal defence and First Amendment lawyer in Los Angeles
• People in industry routinely short-circuit their reasoning, adopting what they heard in a conference talk instead of thinking it through from first principles. MKMartin Kleppmann22 Apr 2026similar wordingComputer science researcher at Cambridge

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