Gregory's ServerCould just be my exposure to Twitter People, but have you noticed people have started using "strawman" to mean bad argument, as opposed to "arguing against an incorrectly weak form of your opponent's position" ?
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@brennen @ZachWeinersmith What’s unfortunate about steelmanning? The term or the practice?   @ZachWeinersmith My brother in evolution, @damnyouwillis was making fun of that a decade ago: https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-be-strawmen @ZachWeinersmith probably people who’ve been told they’re using a strawman and didn’t understand the term so started using it themselves  |
@ZachWeinersmith semantic drift from the unfortunate spread of the "steelmanning" meme amongst lesswrong types et al.?