There are tactics I have available to me which are not oriented towards truthseeking, but instead oriented towards “raising my status at the expense of yours”. I would like to not use those tactics, because I think that they destroy the commons. I view “collaborative truth seeking” as a commitment between interlocutors to avoid those tactics which are good at status games or preaching to the choir, and focus on tactics which are good at convincing.
Additionally,
I can can just … listen to the counterarguments and judge them on their merits, without getting distracted by the irrelevancy of whether the person seems “collaborative” with me
I do not have this skill. When I perceive my partner in discourse as non-collaborative, I have a harder time honestly judging their counterarguments, and I have a harder time generating good counterarguments. This means discourse with someone who is not being collaborative takes more effort, and I am less inclined to do it. When I say “this should be a norm in this space”, I am partially saying “it will be easier for you to convince me if you adopt this norm”.
There are tactics I have available to me which are not oriented towards truthseeking, but instead oriented towards “raising my status at the expense of yours”. I would like to not use those tactics, because I think that they destroy the commons. I view “collaborative truth seeking” as a commitment between interlocutors to avoid those tactics which are good at status games or preaching to the choir, and focus on tactics which are good at convincing.
Additionally,
I do not have this skill. When I perceive my partner in discourse as non-collaborative, I have a harder time honestly judging their counterarguments, and I have a harder time generating good counterarguments. This means discourse with someone who is not being collaborative takes more effort, and I am less inclined to do it. When I say “this should be a norm in this space”, I am partially saying “it will be easier for you to convince me if you adopt this norm”.