I think it is evidence that thinking about it carefully wouldn’t advance their current concerns, so they don’t bother or use the thinking/talking for other purposes. Here are some possibilities that come to mind:
they might not care about the outcomes that you think are decision-relevant and associated with your claim
they may care about the outcomes, but your claim may not actually be decision-relevant if you were to find out the truth about the claim
it may not be a claim which, if thought about carefully, would contribute enough additional evidence to change your probability in the claim enough to change decisions
it may be that you haven’t framed your arguments in a way that suggests to people that there is a promising enough path to getting info that would become decision-relevant
it may be because of a signalling hypothesis that you would come up with; if you’re talking about the distant future, maybe people mostly talk about such stuff as part of a system of behavior that signals support for certain perspectives. If this is happening more in this kind of case, it may be in part because of the other considerations.
I think it is evidence that thinking about it carefully wouldn’t advance their current concerns, so they don’t bother or use the thinking/talking for other purposes. Here are some possibilities that come to mind:
they might not care about the outcomes that you think are decision-relevant and associated with your claim
they may care about the outcomes, but your claim may not actually be decision-relevant if you were to find out the truth about the claim
it may not be a claim which, if thought about carefully, would contribute enough additional evidence to change your probability in the claim enough to change decisions
it may be that you haven’t framed your arguments in a way that suggests to people that there is a promising enough path to getting info that would become decision-relevant
it may be because of a signalling hypothesis that you would come up with; if you’re talking about the distant future, maybe people mostly talk about such stuff as part of a system of behavior that signals support for certain perspectives. If this is happening more in this kind of case, it may be in part because of the other considerations.