I agree, except for the last statement. I’ve found that talking to certain people with bad epistemology about epistemic concepts will, instead of teaching them concepts, teach them a rhetorical trick that (soon afterward) they will try to use against you as a “gotcha” (related)… as a result of them having a soldier mindset and knowing you have a different political opinion.
While I expect most of them won’t ever mimic rationalists well, (i) mimicryper se doesn’t seem important and (ii) I think there are a small fraction of people (tho not Metz) who do end up fostering a “rationalist skin” ― they talk like rationalists, but seem to be in it mostly for gotchas, snipes and sophistry.
I agree, except for the last statement. I’ve found that talking to certain people with bad epistemology about epistemic concepts will, instead of teaching them concepts, teach them a rhetorical trick that (soon afterward) they will try to use against you as a “gotcha” (related)… as a result of them having a soldier mindset and knowing you have a different political opinion.
While I expect most of them won’t ever mimic rationalists well, (i) mimicry per se doesn’t seem important and (ii) I think there are a small fraction of people (tho not Metz) who do end up fostering a “rationalist skin” ― they talk like rationalists, but seem to be in it mostly for gotchas, snipes and sophistry.