An undocumented benefit of public intellectualizing: the more smart things you’re perceived to have said, the more dumb questions you’re allowed to ask with no reputational damage (in fact you get a rep boost as in “wow, he’s smart but willing to look stupid”)
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can dumb questions be rhetorical?
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Risky conversational gambit unless you can suggest with affect that it is in fact rhetorical. Online it reduces to a special case of Poe’s law I think.
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