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How Should I Deplore People?
We need others to argue against us in order to strengthen our own thinking. You really can't know what you know until you've had a critic. So, ah, so first you have to accept that we actually need others to make us smart. And if we surround ourselves with people who confirm our existing thoughts, we get stupid,. quite frankly, stupid. If you're a homosapian, you evolved for group combat. You evolve for confirmation, bias and motivated reasoning. We w are not really evolved to be academics or or or scientists searching for truth in an unbiased way. But as someone who changes the lives of other people by persuading them they will change themselves too. That