Less so under potentially adversarial conditions, when there are politics/culture-war aspects. For example, many people have large personal and social incentives to convince you of various ideas related to UFOs. In that case, it may not be the correct move to engage with the presented arguments, if they are words chosen to manipulate and not to inform. Do not process untrusted input,.
I’m curious if you think that this formulation of the above idea is still antithetical to epistemic rationality.
In situations like that, I’d say, more.. you should process it with reduced energy, in correct proportion. I wouldn’t say you should completely deafen yourself to anyone (unless it’s literally a misaligned AIXI).
I think even this slackened phrasing is not applicable to the current situation, because the people I’m primarily listening to are mostly just ordinary navy staff who are pretty clearly not wired up to any grand disinformation apparatus about UAP.
Less so under potentially adversarial conditions, when there are politics/culture-war aspects. For example, many people have large personal and social incentives to convince you of various ideas related to UFOs. In that case, it may not be the correct move to engage with the presented arguments, if they are words chosen to manipulate and not to inform. Do not process untrusted input,.
I’m curious if you think that this formulation of the above idea is still antithetical to epistemic rationality.
In situations like that, I’d say, more.. you should process it with reduced energy, in correct proportion. I wouldn’t say you should completely deafen yourself to anyone (unless it’s literally a misaligned AIXI).
I think even this slackened phrasing is not applicable to the current situation, because the people I’m primarily listening to are mostly just ordinary navy staff who are pretty clearly not wired up to any grand disinformation apparatus about UAP.