any area where other people have well-informed opinions
It could be tricky to find out which areas are like this.
I mean, if I disagree with most people, I am probably going to suspect that their opinions are not well-informed, so I guess the core problem is assessing the “well-informedness” of people I disagree with.
For example, if I believe that someone is highly intelligent and has a lot of experience in X, and their explanation makes sense to me, or they are willing to listen to my arguments and then tell me where specifically did I make a mistake… I would be quite willing to move my opinion towards theirs. No controversy here.
But there are also situations where people have strong opinions for wrong reasons, and they consider themselves well-informed because they talked to each other and read each other’s blogs or books.
It’s strange for me to consider that you’d take the inside view when evaluating the informed-ness of others.
The usually correct solution is to realize that both your opinion and theirs is likely based on making some incorrect assumptions. You just don’t know which—and so this is a useful quick heuristic
It could be tricky to find out which areas are like this.
I mean, if I disagree with most people, I am probably going to suspect that their opinions are not well-informed, so I guess the core problem is assessing the “well-informedness” of people I disagree with.
For example, if I believe that someone is highly intelligent and has a lot of experience in X, and their explanation makes sense to me, or they are willing to listen to my arguments and then tell me where specifically did I make a mistake… I would be quite willing to move my opinion towards theirs. No controversy here.
But there are also situations where people have strong opinions for wrong reasons, and they consider themselves well-informed because they talked to each other and read each other’s blogs or books.
It’s strange for me to consider that you’d take the inside view when evaluating the informed-ness of others.
The usually correct solution is to realize that both your opinion and theirs is likely based on making some incorrect assumptions. You just don’t know which—and so this is a useful quick heuristic