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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      11 months ago

      Yet that’s not how we’re seeing people get their information these days…

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        11 months ago

        It used to be sort of hard to find academic knowledge outside of an institution. Now you can download it all for free on libgen and have youtubers walk you through it.

        their information

        You’re conflating “their information” with “academic information.”