This all leads into Zack Davis’s top rationality advice: become unlikable, so that people will never agree with you just to get along. They’ll argue with everything you say and you increase your chance of hearing true counterarguments!
I definitely wouldn’t call it “top rationality advice” because there are lots of other reasons to want to be liked and not want to be disliked, but I do expect the effect you describe to be real.
I think what you describe is mostly a high-status (dominance or prestige) phenomenon rather than a high-likeability phenomenon. But I will admit I’m rather going off instinct and intuition here.
This isn’t obvious. What if people who like you tend to agree with your conclusions “as a favor” even if your arguments are bad?
This all leads into Zack Davis’s top rationality advice: become unlikable, so that people will never agree with you just to get along. They’ll argue with everything you say and you increase your chance of hearing true counterarguments!
(jk)
I definitely wouldn’t call it “top rationality advice” because there are lots of other reasons to want to be liked and not want to be disliked, but I do expect the effect you describe to be real.
I think what you describe is mostly a high-status (dominance or prestige) phenomenon rather than a high-likeability phenomenon. But I will admit I’m rather going off instinct and intuition here.