Intelligence Is No Inoculation Against Crazy Beliefs

We look out into world in order to find the first thing that justifies our belief. Intelligence makes you better at finding reasons to back up your instinctive beliefs. It doesn't make you any better at finding counter arguments. So lgence is no inoculation against crazy beliefs. Most of us, the vast majority of us, we want the best the world, but we have very different ideas about how the world works. And we've spent our entire lives seeing evidence that we're right. We end up stuck in these stories. The only people that are evil are psychopaths. Know, theyre a minority of a minority. Theyrenot particularly interesting people outside of horror movies. That's