To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

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    1 year ago

    In my experience, I have found the least intelligent people to also be the most vocal, which makes it look like they are overrepresented in the population.

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      Especially thanks to social media. E.g. there’s a video of the ISS on instagram and the comment section is filled with flat earth people and other crazies.