Now walk through the recommendations in this whole post, but (assuming you don’t agree with them), use homeopathy, or intelligent design, or Holocaust denial. I claim that following your recommendations for one of these views won’t do you any good, and may do you harm.
Remember Scott’s post about reversing any advice you hear, and how some people need to do more of something and some people need to do less, and advice can’t be aimed at the proper group very well? That applies here too. Some people need to be more open to opposing ideas and some people need to be less open. In fact, there are specific ideas where people need to be more open or less open (or where they’re already about as open as appropriate). Advice which just says “be more open” can be useless or worse than useless.
You’re also assuming mistake theory which is often not the case.
Now walk through the recommendations in this whole post, but (assuming you don’t agree with them), use homeopathy, or intelligent design, or Holocaust denial. I claim that following your recommendations for one of these views won’t do you any good, and may do you harm.
Remember Scott’s post about reversing any advice you hear, and how some people need to do more of something and some people need to do less, and advice can’t be aimed at the proper group very well? That applies here too. Some people need to be more open to opposing ideas and some people need to be less open. In fact, there are specific ideas where people need to be more open or less open (or where they’re already about as open as appropriate). Advice which just says “be more open” can be useless or worse than useless.
You’re also assuming mistake theory which is often not the case.