To me, the ideal spirit is “let me add my cognition to the collective so we all arrive at true beliefs” rather than “let me tug the collective beliefs in the direction I believe is correct” or “I need to ensure people believe the correct thing.”
I like this a lot.
I’ll add that you can just say out loud “I wish other people believed X” or “I think the correct collective belief here would be X”, in addition to saying your personal belief Y.
(An example of a case where this might make sense: You think another person or group believes Z, and you think they rationally should believe X instead, given the evidence available to them. You yourself believe a more-extreme proposition Y, but you don’t think others have enough evidence to believe Y yet—e.g., your belief may be based on technical expertise or hard-won life-experience that the other parties don’t have.)
It’s possible to care about the group’s beliefs, and try to intervene on them, in a way that’s honest and clear about what you’re doing.
I like this a lot.
I’ll add that you can just say out loud “I wish other people believed X” or “I think the correct collective belief here would be X”, in addition to saying your personal belief Y.
(An example of a case where this might make sense: You think another person or group believes Z, and you think they rationally should believe X instead, given the evidence available to them. You yourself believe a more-extreme proposition Y, but you don’t think others have enough evidence to believe Y yet—e.g., your belief may be based on technical expertise or hard-won life-experience that the other parties don’t have.)
It’s possible to care about the group’s beliefs, and try to intervene on them, in a way that’s honest and clear about what you’re doing.