You can be nice .. and some nasty but pushy soul manages to ram his ideas through is what it boils down to in practice, in several situations.
From: Silklist <[email protected]> on behalf of Jeremy Bornstein via Silklist <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 30 April 2024 at 2:54 PM To: Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremy Bornstein <[email protected]>, Intelligent conversation <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Silk] Can you change your mind, really? This paper looks to speak to (more or less) the idea that, in brainstorming sessions, one's ideas are accepted more readily if one is nice, which is *not* a belief that I actually have*. But if I did, and if I were to read this paper and believe its evidence to be sound, I believe I would consider changing my mind! But since it doesn't (seem to) actually contradict anything that I believe at present, it's maybe not the ideal example :). Jeremy * This also seems to encode the presupposition that a goal of an individual during a brainstorming session is to have their own ideas prevail, rather than the most useful ones. On Tue, 2024-04-30 at 09:53 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 9:10 AM Jeremy Bornstein <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I'm not even sure I know to what that would apply. I suspect that anything I feel to be a deeply held belief is likely to be a value judgment of some sort, like "in general, it's a good idea to be nice to people." I guess I would theoretically change that belief if it were brought to my attention that acting on it has demonstrably overall negative results, but for that kind of thing it seems unlikely that high-quality evidence would even be possible to obtain. In fact, this is a great example. And in terms of "high quality evidence", would something like this qualify? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-014-9386-1 Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com<http://pobox.com>)) ((www.digeratus.com<http://www.digeratus.com>))
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