I wasn’t talking about human behavior or psychology.
If you do not intend to get humans to believe the arguments, you are correct that epistemic learned helplessness doesn’t apply. I do find this sort of odd, however.
I don’t think that such a post would imply “in order to get humans to believe them” anywhere near as much as this one did. Not every post implies the same things, after all!
If you do not intend to get humans to believe the arguments, you are correct that epistemic learned helplessness doesn’t apply. I do find this sort of odd, however.
I don’t think you would reply like this if I wrote a post about how Bayesian arguments are better than frequentist arguments.
I don’t think that such a post would imply “in order to get humans to believe them” anywhere near as much as this one did. Not every post implies the same things, after all!