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Interesting how clueless knowledge-idealists turn it into politically dangerous prescription and pretend there’s no cost to dumb questions. Only true for children and only if age-appropriate. Adults kinda have to earn “stupid question tokens” by showing off smarts elsewhere
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That might just be wishful thinking. In practice, I think those stupid questions get singled out and paraded as "this is the idiot's idea of what an intellectual looks like" for the intellectualizer in question.
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If the intellectualizer ends up not paying the cost (being immediately called out and embarrassed) it’s a freebie I think. Can’t control invisible updates of priors or being tagged a lolcow, but you do eventually detect such hidden reputational damage.
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side lesson hopefully people pick up on: there's a correlation between being an intellectual of observable merit, and being someone who wants to become less wrong/uninformed/whatever even if that means temporarily displaying a topic of ignorance
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