And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.

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    9 months ago

    When this happens on a topic with which you have expert level knowledge, it is so blindingly obvious and eye opening just how wrong every other conversation may be. It strongly suggests having a highly critical eye on any topic.

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      9 months ago

      The popular criteria for sane conversation appear to be

      1. logically consistent more or less

      2. sounds like something that I already agree with

      There you go. Stick to those rules and you can have a conversation about goddamn vulcan brain surgery. And everybody involved will wisely nod their heads.