本文作者与Bryan Caplan就心理疾病问题展开讨论，但作者认为这并非真正的辩论，因为Caplan并未真正回应作者的驳斥，而是不断提出新的观点，并试图从作者的其他文章中寻找支持自己观点的依据。作者明确表示，他从未暗中承认Caplan在心理疾病问题上的正确性。

🤓 Caplan的观点：Caplan在文章中提出自己对心理疾病的看法，有时会标注这是与作者的辩论，但往往忽略了作者的反驳。

📚 长篇反驳：作者针对Caplan的观点撰写了详细的反驳文章，但Caplan并未对此作出有效回应。

🔄 单方面的辩论：作者认为这种互动更像是单方面的自我辩论，而非真正的双方交流。

🔍 错误的解读：Caplan试图从作者的其他文章中寻找证据，以证明作者在心理疾病问题上与他观点一致，但作者认为这是一种错误的解读。

📢 明确立场：作者强调，他的立场与Caplan相反，并在文章标题中明确表达了对Caplan观点的反对。

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Bryan Caplan thinks he’s debating me about mental illness. He’s not. Sometimes he posts some thoughts he has been having about mental illness, with or without a sentence saying “this is part of my debate with Scott”. Then I write a very long essay explaining why he is wrong. Then he ignores it, and has more thoughts, and again writes them up with “this is part of my debate with Scott”. I would not describe this as debating. Call it unibating, or monobating, or another word ending in -bating which is less polite but as far as I can tell equally appropriate.

Although he doesn’t answer my rebuttals, he does diligently respond to various unrelated posts of mine, explaining why they must mean I am secretly admitting he was right all along. When I wrote about the scourge of witches stealing people’s penises, Caplan spun it as me secretly admitting he was right all along about mental illness. Sometimes I feel like this has gone a bit too far - when I announced I had gotten married, Caplan spun it as me secretly admitting he was right all along about mental illness.

Let it be known to all that I am never secretly admitting Bryan Caplan is right about mental illness. There is no further need to speculate that I am doing this. If you want to know my position vis-a-vis Bryan Caplan and mental illness, you are welcome to read my four thousand word essay on the subject, Contra Contra Contra Caplan On Psych. You will notice that the title clearly telegraphs that it is about Bryan Caplan and mental illness, and that (if you count up the contras) I am against him. If that ever changes, rest assured I will telegraph it in something titled equally clearly.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sure-whatever-lets-try-another-contra