Hmm lots of popular value claims are quite beneficial to the recipient (“wash your hands and make everyone you know wash them too or you’re disgusting” or “save up your money or you’re poverty-minded”)
Lots of factual claims with zero value implications or actual personal value are memetically fit (eg flame wars on certain physics topics)
Lots of factual-looking claims actually written by someone with an opinion who cares (“did you know Africa has the most languages of any continent?”)
Lots of people with opinions who care actually do know the facts (eg some ai safety people are tired and just like “pause ai now!! Evil companies!!”)
Maybe there’s a better place to draw the line? Maybe the wise thing is to focus on the conversations where people demonstrate real interest in root causes of things, without totally ignoring the other subjects “nobody can EXPLAIN to me why murder is actually bad”
Hmm lots of popular value claims are quite beneficial to the recipient (“wash your hands and make everyone you know wash them too or you’re disgusting” or “save up your money or you’re poverty-minded”)
Lots of factual claims with zero value implications or actual personal value are memetically fit (eg flame wars on certain physics topics)
Lots of factual-looking claims actually written by someone with an opinion who cares (“did you know Africa has the most languages of any continent?”)
Lots of people with opinions who care actually do know the facts (eg some ai safety people are tired and just like “pause ai now!! Evil companies!!”)
Maybe there’s a better place to draw the line? Maybe the wise thing is to focus on the conversations where people demonstrate real interest in root causes of things, without totally ignoring the other subjects “nobody can EXPLAIN to me why murder is actually bad”