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150 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 23h \ parent \ on: Review of Jimmy Song v. Peter Todd filters debate (Plan ₿ Lugano) bitcoin
Maybe this isn't fair, but Peter strikes me as the kind of guy who would wing something like this. The smart guy who gets by on his talent but doesn't really prep... we all know people like that!
Nah, actually that was the result of a lot of prep.
The thing to remember here is I was scheduled to go second. Doing a big pre-prepared formal statement in that circumstance is something I really dislike in a debate like this: my role is to respond to Jimmy. Hence why I tried to get him to nail down what he actually meant by "spam", so I could respond appropriately. Which is a strategy that has worked well in other cases for me. But in this case I really threw off the moderator.
The way I (and many like me) prep for this kind of debate is to go over the likely arguments from the other side and 1) come up with responses, 2) make sure you have the facts memorized. Jimmy repeatedly made basic technical mistakes; he either clearly did not do #2 properly.
Fundamentally an error I think a lot of people are making here is treating this like a highschool debate team. I'm not trying to win points in a scored debate where rhetoric matters more than facts. I'm trying to actually sway an audience. It looked like slightly more people agreed with me on the end than before, so on that basis I'm happy.