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(i'll also crosspost this one in [email protected], since i'm not sure how much overlap our two communities currently have)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've learned from my Autistic friends that so many ideas (including ideas people are taking political action on) are vibes-only because they didn't pick up the vibes themselves, investigated it to see why people thought it was true, and found out it made no sense at all and just felt true to the people who believed it. It's made me a lot more likely to investigate ideas which appear to make sense intuitively to me.

[–] MxEli 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay but same though. Granted, I was always the type to just investigate everything (my poor dad had to take me to the library SO MUCH as a kid), but it's definitely more urgent (??) now. It feels like you have to do the research just to be sure that you're not on the wrong side of things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel you. There's a ton of misinformation and bad faith argument out there. My favorite thing I've heard recently that resonated with me is "I don't care about being right, I care about being correct."

[–] MxEli 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, I'm officially incorporating that phrase into my life. It really resonates with me because that's what I've always tried to do, and it just makes absolute sense to me for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Kwakigra @MxEli Good! That's what we need more of. The less we operate society on 'vibes-only' ideas the more accessible it is for the rest of us.