Emile comments on Ace Attorney: pioneer Rationalism-didactic game? - Less Wrong
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That only holds if the individuals are trying to change each other's mind, or prove that the other is wrong to a third party. If the conflict isn't around belief or values, then the involved parties have better use the available evidence to be as effective as possible. So games like Diplomacy or Starcraft could be decent training grounds for instrumental rationality.
(I still agree with what you meant, i.e. adverserial debate isn't very conductive to either party weighting the evidence honestly and updating their beliefs in consequence)
Yes, I should have specified situations where the conflict is over beliefs. Conflicts over goals don't have the same mind-killing quality.