I suspect there is a trade-off between partisanship and “deep wisdom”. You can make status moves of both kinds, you just have to choose the move that fits your audience.
Displaying sophistication by saying things like “there are also some interesting arguments against the statement 2+2=4” at every opportunity can perfectly kill any momentum. (Even if those arguments are technically valid, for example “there is no such thing as ‘4’ in base 3; it’s called ’11′ instead”, as long as they don’t contribute to solving the problem, only to signal the scholarship of the speaker.)
I suspect there is a trade-off between partisanship and “deep wisdom”. You can make status moves of both kinds, you just have to choose the move that fits your audience.
Displaying sophistication by saying things like “there are also some interesting arguments against the statement 2+2=4” at every opportunity can perfectly kill any momentum. (Even if those arguments are technically valid, for example “there is no such thing as ‘4’ in base 3; it’s called ’11′ instead”, as long as they don’t contribute to solving the problem, only to signal the scholarship of the speaker.)