Works
- Better Disagreement, LessWrong, 2011
In Thinking Tools
Known for
His post on the levels of disagreement defined a steel man as an improvement of someone's position or argument, harder to defeat than the original, and placed at the top of the scale restating an opponent's case better than they could before refuting it. It is the earliest dated citation for the term in Wiktionary. He now works on AI governance at Open Philanthropy.