I’ve seen this sentiment before, but, in practice, I don’t think there exists an “adversarial noise for humans” line of argument that brainwashes anyone who reads it sincerely into doing XYZ. There are certainly arguments that look compelling at first glance but turn out to have longer-term issues, but part of “taking ideas seriously” is thoroughly investigating their counterarguments.
Chesterton’s Fence is an old standard for a reason: if something new seems both simple enough to be easily discoverable and objectively better than the current strategy, one should figure out why it’s not already the current strategy before adopting it.
I’ve seen this sentiment before, but, in practice, I don’t think there exists an “adversarial noise for humans” line of argument that brainwashes anyone who reads it sincerely into doing XYZ. There are certainly arguments that look compelling at first glance but turn out to have longer-term issues, but part of “taking ideas seriously” is thoroughly investigating their counterarguments.
Chesterton’s Fence is an old standard for a reason: if something new seems both simple enough to be easily discoverable and objectively better than the current strategy, one should figure out why it’s not already the current strategy before adopting it.