But people do make decisions like this, which is a well known psychological result. We’ve got to live with it, and it’s not givewells fault that people are like this.
I expect people to shrug and say “yeah, but look, that’s just how the world works, people get ingrained opinions, we have to work around that”. My response is: why on earth are you forfeiting victory without thoroughly discussing the problem?
But people do make decisions like this, which is a well known psychological result. We’ve got to live with it, and it’s not givewells fault that people are like this.
As I said in my (unedited) toplevel comment:
The latter point does not seem to follow the prior.
I do not know of any achievable plan to make a majority of the world’s habitants rational.
“We’ve got to” implies there’s only one possibility.
We can also just ignore the bad decision makers?
We can go extinct?
We can have a world autocrat in the future?
We can… do a lot of things other than just live with it?