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Steelmanning is the act of taking a view, or opinion, or argument and constructing the strongest possible version of it. It is the opposite of strawmanning.

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Against Steelmanning by Thing of Things

See also: Disagreement, Ideological Turing Tests, Least convenient possible world

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