If you persistently misinterpret people as saying stupid things, then your evidence that people say a lot of stupid things is false evidence, You’re in a sort of echo chamber. The PoC is correct because an actually stupid comment is a comment that can’t be interpreted as smart no matter how hard you try.
The fact that some people misapply the POC is not the PoCs fault..
The PoC cannot in any way a guideline about what is worth spending time on. It is about efficient communication in the sense of interpreting people correctly only. If you haven’t got time to charitable interpret someone, you should default to some average or commital appraisal of their intelligence, rather than accumulate false data that they are stupid.
If you persistently misinterpret people as saying stupid things, then your evidence that people say a lot of stupid things is false evidence, You’re in a sort of echo chamber. The PoC is correct because an actually stupid comment is a comment that can’t be interpreted as smart no matter how hard you try.
The fact that some people misapply the POC is not the PoCs fault..
The PoC cannot in any way a guideline about what is worth spending time on. It is about efficient communication in the sense of interpreting people correctly only. If you haven’t got time to charitable interpret someone, you should default to some average or commital appraisal of their intelligence, rather than accumulate false data that they are stupid.