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explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 week agothis seems to work better on techy people who don’t like thinking about politics but understand the technical details
Not weird at all; this was the case with cryptocurrency too. Otherwise qualified and intelligent people would invest in centralized scam coins because they had no understanding of economics, just tech.
It’s sad but cool that it works the same way with social capital.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Intelligence and expertise is worth pursuing for the benefit that comes from learning for the sake of learning, but it is true that there is a danger to knowing more and more about something in that it becomes more and more seductive to believe that the thing you are in expert in is a key to understanding everything else and that this gives you a righteous vantage to look down upon the genius of others and judge from afar.