I do sometimes run into good faith disagreements, they feel very different from typical disagreements.
Example 1: someone says something on the phone about “Simon building a computer science model of his father’s situation”. I think it’s referring to Simon A and a friend thinks it’s Simon B. We bet and call the person back and I was wrong and feel silly.
Example 2: Someone says that standard financial prudence calls for minimizing market beta. I think this is wrong and it calls for increasing it in most cases. Then I look it up and realize it’s because you can lever up a low market beta to a high one.
It feels really different from a normal non-trivial disagreement. In both cases it felt at the time like I was very probably correct and it was confusing that the other person disagreed. There is usually some mix of bad faith and good faith in typical cases, and that makes the resolution a lot slower.
I do sometimes run into good faith disagreements, they feel very different from typical disagreements.
Example 1: someone says something on the phone about “Simon building a computer science model of his father’s situation”. I think it’s referring to Simon A and a friend thinks it’s Simon B. We bet and call the person back and I was wrong and feel silly.
Example 2: Someone says that standard financial prudence calls for minimizing market beta. I think this is wrong and it calls for increasing it in most cases. Then I look it up and realize it’s because you can lever up a low market beta to a high one.
It feels really different from a normal non-trivial disagreement. In both cases it felt at the time like I was very probably correct and it was confusing that the other person disagreed. There is usually some mix of bad faith and good faith in typical cases, and that makes the resolution a lot slower.