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> Just means that they have limited imagination, no?

Limited enough to not imagine the possibility there's something they don't know.

Explicitly labeled steelman is just "argument from arrogance", and that's one reason people often react badly to it. Some times the arrogant person does know better than everybody else, but statistically those two are negatively correlated.



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