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Scoundrel 4 months ago
You are missing the whole point: I DON'T think I know anything. Certainly not anything that requires agonizing about evidence, requires expensive research, and requires performing dozens and dozens of experiments. Wisdom is having the ability to make the decisions that matter WITHOUT needing to know the irrelevant facts and context. I genuinely cannot be forced to care about how ultra-beta radiation is turning you gay. I just can't think of any good reason why you would spend so much time focusing on a topic that nobody will ever meaningfully engage with. Ok. Everything we believe is completely wrong. Why the fuck would you or anyone else do the insane level of work required to actually know that for sure or argue with you? Do you expect me to believe you were actually retarded enough to spend the thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours required to actually determine for yourself whether any of this is bullshit? Do you not value your time at all? Do you think a person who is secure in their deductive reasoning skills would choose a topic they know nobody will ever put in the work to challenge and engage with them on? Tell me, how I am supposed to interpret your decision?

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Re: your final question: Don't know, don't care. I just try to seek truth. If not knowing and not caring works for you, more power to you. Your initial note just seemed like you were trying to gatekeep what people should do with their time which always rubs me the wrong way. Would be weird though if you actually formed opinions on people for caring about something and dedicating time to it.
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Scoundrel 4 months ago
What's weirder is someone doing something with their free time and NOT thinking it's objectively meaningful. If you think something is a good hobby and use of your time then it would show confidence and respect to argue that it's a a good use of everyone's time. And in my case, I see someone doing something that I believe is an objectively bad hobby and because I respect and am interested in OP's ideas, I choose to share that and engage with him. What's more respectful? To talk with someone you think is making a mistake? Or to ignore their mistake and pretend everything is fine?
It provides more and more meaning in an otherwise meaningless world because it shatters the illusions. Whether its analyzing marketing, influence operations, psyops, scams, technology, religion, people, politics, conspiracies. Most of what I research gives me valuable tools in everyday life. For me, I accepted that people on the Internet will think and do things I don't think are useful, but people do it anyway because it provides them with something I may not even know or see. If none of that is meaningful, I don't know what is. You do you, all good.