If I seem contrarian, it’s because I believe that the truth is best uncovered by stating one’s beliefs and then critically examining the arguments.
That’s your error. You should be aiming to let the important parts of reality imprint marks of themselves and their dynamics in your worldview.
Consensus might be best reached by stating one’s beliefs and then critically examining the arguments. But if you want to reach consensus, you also need to absorb other’s angles, e.g. their friends and the sequences and their framings and so on. (Assuming everyone trusts each other. In cases of distrust, stating one’s beliefs and critically examining arguments might simply deepen the distrust.)
If you have arguments or disagree with me fine, but saying “you’re not allowed to think about this, you just have to trust me and my friends” is not a satisfying answer.
If you think without contact with reality, your wrongness is just going to become more self-consistent.
I don’t know, because you haven’t told me which of the forces that are present in my world-model are absent from your world-model. Without knowing what to add, I can’t give you a pointer.
That’s your error. You should be aiming to let the important parts of reality imprint marks of themselves and their dynamics in your worldview.
Consensus might be best reached by stating one’s beliefs and then critically examining the arguments. But if you want to reach consensus, you also need to absorb other’s angles, e.g. their friends and the sequences and their framings and so on. (Assuming everyone trusts each other. In cases of distrust, stating one’s beliefs and critically examining arguments might simply deepen the distrust.)
If you think without contact with reality, your wrongness is just going to become more self-consistent.
Please! I’m begging you! Give me some of this contact with reality! What is the evidence you have seen and I have not? Where?
I don’t know, because you haven’t told me which of the forces that are present in my world-model are absent from your world-model. Without knowing what to add, I can’t give you a pointer.