I see the technique of double-crux as being useful, although there will not always be a double crux. Sometimes people will have a whole host of reasons for being for something and merely convincing them to change their view on any one of them won’t be enough to shift their view, even if they are a perfectly rational agent. Similarly, I don’t see any reason why two people’s cruxes have to overlap. Yet it practise, this technique seems to work reasonably well. I haven’t thought enough about this to understand it very well yet.
Yeah—in the lengthy Double Crux article it’s acknowledged that there can be multiple cruxes. But it’s important to find whatever the most important cruxes are, instead of getting distracted by lots of things that sound-like-good-arguments but aren’t actually the core issue.
I see the technique of double-crux as being useful, although there will not always be a double crux. Sometimes people will have a whole host of reasons for being for something and merely convincing them to change their view on any one of them won’t be enough to shift their view, even if they are a perfectly rational agent. Similarly, I don’t see any reason why two people’s cruxes have to overlap. Yet it practise, this technique seems to work reasonably well. I haven’t thought enough about this to understand it very well yet.
Yeah—in the lengthy Double Crux article it’s acknowledged that there can be multiple cruxes. But it’s important to find whatever the most important cruxes are, instead of getting distracted by lots of things that sound-like-good-arguments but aren’t actually the core issue.