Need to specify context and define more precisely what it means to judge an argument. This post seems to vacillate between high-bandwidth mutual truth-seeking discussions and “social movement”, which is more of a simple broadcast-of belief model, with little room for debate or consideration of arguments.
To the direct question, rationality does not naively aggregate arguments by strength or quantity. It demands decomposing the arguments into evidence, and de-duplicating the components which overlap/correlate to get an update. And what people typically do depends entirely on the people and situations you consider to be typical.
Need to specify context and define more precisely what it means to judge an argument. This post seems to vacillate between high-bandwidth mutual truth-seeking discussions and “social movement”, which is more of a simple broadcast-of belief model, with little room for debate or consideration of arguments.
To the direct question, rationality does not naively aggregate arguments by strength or quantity. It demands decomposing the arguments into evidence, and de-duplicating the components which overlap/correlate to get an update. And what people typically do depends entirely on the people and situations you consider to be typical.