Whether someone is worth arguing with is a subjective value judgement.
And given your values you’d ideally arrive at those through some process other than the one you use to judge, say, a new apartment?
I think that trying to understand the worldview of people who are very different from you is often useful.
Trying to explain ideas in a way that you never explained them before can also be useful.
I agree. I hope I didn’t give the impression that I didn’t. Usefulness belongs to instrumental rationality more so than to epistemic rationality.
Whether someone is worth arguing with is a subjective value judgement.
And given your values you’d ideally arrive at those through some process other than the one you use to judge, say, a new apartment?
I think that trying to understand the worldview of people who are very different from you is often useful.
Trying to explain ideas in a way that you never explained them before can also be useful.
I agree. I hope I didn’t give the impression that I didn’t. Usefulness belongs to instrumental rationality more so than to epistemic rationality.