Related to the below post on combat troops- a lot of debaters have been asking questions this summer about “reasonability” with a general tone of “this argument is dumb”
Just wanted to remind everyone that you can see a lecture on the topic from the man himself, embedded below the fold
CNDI 2009 – Competing Interpretations vs Reasonability-Ross Smith, Wake Forest from Berkeley Debate on Vimeo.
Is it just me or does the video freeze at 4:04?
@Richard
Same here
Same problem here. But, uh, of the first four minutes, I really liked the "which shape is better" as an opening to the lecture.
I'm told that Andres has a complete copy somewhere. I'm also told that this lecture was nothing short of brilliant, as well. I heard him give slightly different versions on multiple occasions, and once you've heard it, you'll be a true believer.
Can we get a link to where a working version of this might be located?
From what I know, it's on Andres' computer – I'll email him.
Click on "lecture on the topic from the man himself". It takes you to the CNDI wiki where Ross Smith's video is posted. That one works fine for me at least.
Looks like the orig. is lost forever.
Indian debater- did you watch past the 4mn mark? It still froze for me
Yeah, all versions fail. I would really like to see this, keep finding myself looking back at this thread. It would be a true shame if this lecture was lost since Smith himself is gone.
On an unrelated note, I find it pretty funny that Ross Smith also did a lecture at this camp about raising your speaker points; he ends 80% of his sentences with 'mmmkay.' Drives me crazy!
I got frozen at the 5:06 mark. I don't know why, but it looks to me that Andres Gannon has a copy. Once someone contacts him, the lecture should be up. The vimeo one that he uploaded last year seems to have the same problem. Its simply a matter of time when he reads Josh Gonzalez's email.
Andres doesn't have it, hence lost forever
I downloaded the file and tried playing it, no luck there (as expected). I googled the issue and it seems to have happened to a few other people, looks like something to do with file conversion.