This brilliant point by @ESYudkowsky explains about 75% of why it's hard to change people's minds through Twitter.https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5LASfhhArZ7w/expecting-short-inferential-distances …
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Strong disagree. I think you could talk to
@juliagalef about a subject at an arbitrarily great distance and you would be able to distinguish her conduct from that of someone arguing in bad faith.
Yes, conspicuous cues of epistemic humility, rationality, and open-mindedness (openness-signaling?) can do a lot to overcome impressions of bad faith. But most people aren't very good at openness-signaling....
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Pointing to outliers and framing them as common = bad faith argument
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We shot ourselves in the foot making irony the default. I find it hard to write anything I can't imagine someone assumes I'm saying with a sneer. It makes signaling openness very difficult.
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Hypothesis (based on extensive data collection and the latest Senate report): Much of* the bad faith we see online is the result of fraudulent accounts posing as members of the American community across the spectrum, from far left, to the center, to far right, etc. *but not all
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