I don’t know whether this observation has been made before, (if it has, certainly more succintly), but I’ve noticed something about arguments with particularly irrational people (AGW deniers, Holocaust deniers, creationists, etc): The required length of each subsequent reply to explain why they’re wrong grows exponentially with the length of the argument, while the irrational side can remain roughly constant. Entangled truths?
I don’t know whether this observation has been made before, (if it has, certainly more succintly), but I’ve noticed something about arguments with particularly irrational people (AGW deniers, Holocaust deniers, creationists, etc): The required length of each subsequent reply to explain why they’re wrong grows exponentially with the length of the argument, while the irrational side can remain roughly constant. Entangled truths?