The epistemic immune system serves a purpose—some things are very difficult to reason out in full and some pitfalls are easy to fall in unknowingly. If you were a perfect reasoner, of course, this wouldn’t matter, but the epistemic immune system is necessary because you’re not a perfect reasoner. You’re running on corrupted hardware, and you’ve just proposed dumping the error-checking that protects you from flaws in the corrupted hardware.
And saying “we should disable them if they get in the way of accurate beliefs” is, to mix metaphors, like saying “we should dispense with the idea of needing a warrant for the police to search your house, as long as you’re guilty”. Everyone thinks their own beliefs are accurate; saying “we should get rid of our epistemic immune system if it gets in the way of accurate beliefs” is equivalent to getting rid of it all the time.
The epistemic immune system serves a purpose—some things are very difficult to reason out in full and some pitfalls are easy to fall in unknowingly. If you were a perfect reasoner, of course, this wouldn’t matter, but the epistemic immune system is necessary because you’re not a perfect reasoner. You’re running on corrupted hardware, and you’ve just proposed dumping the error-checking that protects you from flaws in the corrupted hardware.
And saying “we should disable them if they get in the way of accurate beliefs” is, to mix metaphors, like saying “we should dispense with the idea of needing a warrant for the police to search your house, as long as you’re guilty”. Everyone thinks their own beliefs are accurate; saying “we should get rid of our epistemic immune system if it gets in the way of accurate beliefs” is equivalent to getting rid of it all the time.