My response to it is: What makes you think it is naive idiocy? It seems like naive intelligence if anything. Even if the literal belief is false, that doesn’t make it a stupid thing to act as if true. If everyone acted as if it were true, it would certainly be a stag-hunt scenario! And the benefits are still much worthwhile even if the other does not perfectly cooperate.
Stupid uncritical intolerant people will think you look childish and impertinent, but intelligent people will notice you’re being bullied and you’re still tolerating your interlocutor, and they will think you’re super-right. You divide the world into intelligent+pro-you and stupid+against-you.
Also I might note that your attempted counter-example has an implied tone which accuses naive idiocy, rather than sounding curious with salient plausibility. The saliently plausible thing, in your attempted counter-example, is an implicit gesture that there is not a difference.
My response to it is: What makes you think it is naive idiocy? It seems like naive intelligence if anything. Even if the literal belief is false, that doesn’t make it a stupid thing to act as if true. If everyone acted as if it were true, it would certainly be a stag-hunt scenario! And the benefits are still much worthwhile even if the other does not perfectly cooperate.
Stupid uncritical intolerant people will think you look childish and impertinent, but intelligent people will notice you’re being bullied and you’re still tolerating your interlocutor, and they will think you’re super-right. You divide the world into intelligent+pro-you and stupid+against-you.
Also I might note that your attempted counter-example has an implied tone which accuses naive idiocy, rather than sounding curious with salient plausibility. The saliently plausible thing, in your attempted counter-example, is an implicit gesture that there is not a difference.