We should clearly care if their arguments were wrong in the past, especially if they were systematically wrong in a particular direction, as it’s evidence about how much attention we should pay to their arguments now. At some point if someone is wrong enough for long enough you should discard their entire paradigm and cease to privilege hypotheses they suggest, until they reacquire credibility through some other means
e.g. a postmortem explaining what they got wrong and what they learned, or some unambiguous demonstration of insight into the domain they’re talking about.
We should clearly care if their arguments were wrong in the past, especially if they were systematically wrong in a particular direction, as it’s evidence about how much attention we should pay to their arguments now. At some point if someone is wrong enough for long enough you should discard their entire paradigm and cease to privilege hypotheses they suggest, until they reacquire credibility through some other means e.g. a postmortem explaining what they got wrong and what they learned, or some unambiguous demonstration of insight into the domain they’re talking about.