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Debate Often Becomes Dominance Play
- Intellectual combat often replaces truth-seeking in debates and online exchanges.
- People pursue dominance with posture, interruptions and rhetorical tricks instead of testing hypotheses.
Norms That Encourage Honest Inquiry
- The rationality community enforces norms of curiosity, politeness and calibrated confidence.
- Members practise admitting uncertainty and explaining why they hold beliefs instead of declaring facts dogmatically.
Galef's Asymmetric Scrutiny
- Julia Galef found a paper that contradicted her book and at first dismissed it for poor methodology.
- She then realised she would have accepted the study if it supported her thesis, revealing asymmetric rigor.