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Michael Smith touched on this in his keynote talk at LWCW last weekend. Don't believe something just because you've heard a good argument for it, he said (I think, reconstructing from memory, and possibly extrapolating as well). If you do that, you'll just change your mind as soon as you encounter a really good argument for the opposite (the process Yvain described). You don't really know something until you've reached the state where the knowledge would grow back if it was deleted from your mind.
LW has a higher bar to believing, but is it high enough? Once an idea breaches the walls, should it sweep all before it, assisted by the meta-idea of taking ideas seriously?
Also relevant, an old comment of mine.
I don't think that's the case. If you look at the LW census you find that people think UFAI isn't the biggest Xrisk for most people on LW, even through it's the Xrisk that's most prominently discussed on LW.