Reflect · Unit 4 of 5 · 10 min

The steelman challenge

Take a view you strongly oppose. Write the strongest possible case for it — good enough that someone who holds it would read it and say "yes, that's what I mean". This is the hardest exercise in the app.

The view you oppose.

Now argue for it, as well as you possibly can. No irony, no hedging, no "they would say".

Which part of what you just wrote is genuinely strong?

How does your own position answer that strong part?

Would a thoughtful holder of this view recognise themselves in your version? If not, what is missing?

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