Not sure how convinced I am by your statement. Perhaps you can add to it a bit more?
What “the math” appears to say is that if it’s bad to believe things because someone told it to me “well” then there would have to be some other completely different set of criteria, that has nothing to do with what I think of it, for performing the updates.
Don’t you think that would introduce some fairly hefty problems?
You’ve never said what you mean by “told well”, and indeed have declined to say from the outset, saying only that it is “entirely up to us to decide” what it means. If “told well” means “making sound arguments from verifiable evidence”, well, of course one would generally update towards the thing told. If it just means “glibly told as by a used car salesman with ChatGPT whispering in his ear”, then no.
Believing things because someone told them to you “well” makes you a sucker for con men.
Not sure how convinced I am by your statement. Perhaps you can add to it a bit more?
What “the math” appears to say is that if it’s bad to believe things because someone told it to me “well” then there would have to be some other completely different set of criteria, that has nothing to do with what I think of it, for performing the updates.
Don’t you think that would introduce some fairly hefty problems?
You’ve never said what you mean by “told well”, and indeed have declined to say from the outset, saying only that it is “entirely up to us to decide” what it means. If “told well” means “making sound arguments from verifiable evidence”, well, of course one would generally update towards the thing told. If it just means “glibly told as by a used car salesman with ChatGPT whispering in his ear”, then no.
“Up to you” means you can select better criteria if you think that would be better.