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This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.
"Is that cruxy" approximately means "is this proposition load bearing for your opinion on the broader topic we are discussing?". I.e. if you are discussing whether god exists, and then in the process of that hit the question of whether historical Jesus was real, then one person can say "is this cruxy?" to mean "would you actually change your mind (or at least substantially update) on whether god exists if historical Jesus did in fact exist?".
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.