Sublime

Stuart Armstrong gives closely related advice: Cut up your Great Thingy into smaller independent ideas, and treat them as independent. For instance a marxist would cut up Marx’s Great Thingy into a theory of value of labour, a theory of the political relations between classes, a theory of wages, a theory on the ultimate political state of mankind.

where there is human evil in the world, where there is cruelty and torture and deliberate murder, there are biases enshrouding it.

Beware when you find yourself arguing that a policy is defensible rather than optimal; or that it has some benefit compared to the null action, rather than the best benefit of any action.

A clear argument has to lay out an inferential pathway, starting from what the audience already knows or accepts. If you don’t recurse far enough, you’re just talking to yourself.