Social dynamics seem important, but I also think Scott Alexander in “Epistemic Learned Helplessness” put his finger on something important in objecting to the rationalist mission of creating people who would believe something once it had been proven to them. Together with “taking ideas seriously”/decompartmentalization, attempting to follow the rules of rationality itself can be very destabilizing.
Social dynamics seem important, but I also think Scott Alexander in “Epistemic Learned Helplessness” put his finger on something important in objecting to the rationalist mission of creating people who would believe something once it had been proven to them. Together with “taking ideas seriously”/decompartmentalization, attempting to follow the rules of rationality itself can be very destabilizing.