but being shouty and emotional isn't conditional on being right. In fact, being right is infamously hard to establish, assuming "rightness" is something you can

but being shouty and emotional isn't conditional on being right. In fact, being right is infamously hard to establish, assuming "rightness" is something you can even measure for the question at hand. So going for shouty means you're going to be heard, but you're no more likely to be right. The rationalist approach is to optimise for "rightness", or to be "less wrong" you could say. The problem is that the niche of people who take ideas from the community and market them to the wider world remains largely unfilled, especially compared to more-shouty-but-less-concerned-about-right political factions.