If you’re trying to help a group have accurate beliefs on aggregate, stay nonjudgmental so that the forces pulling people towards conventional wisdom will be lower, and they’ll be more influenced by the evidence they encounter as opposed to the incentives they encounter. You may say “well, I’m only judgmental towards peoples’ beliefs when they’re incorrect.”
The problem with giving rationalists this kind of advice is that it lowers the average sanity of the people defining conventional wisdom.
That’s true only if judgmentalness is the only source of peer pressure.
If, for example, being successful allows one to successfully exert peer pressure and rational people are more successful, then even if the more rational people in a group are less judgmental they might still exert significant peer pressure.
The problem with giving rationalists this kind of advice is that it lowers the average sanity of the people defining conventional wisdom.
I don’t follow.
If the more rational people in a group are the least judgmental, the only source of peer pressure will be from the less rational people.
That’s true only if judgmentalness is the only source of peer pressure.
If, for example, being successful allows one to successfully exert peer pressure and rational people are more successful, then even if the more rational people in a group are less judgmental they might still exert significant peer pressure.