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I know there's always going to be PhDs who believe the earth is flat, because humans are like that... But it's just so hard to relate to super intelligent people believing crazy things. It really does boggle my mind!


You understand that people may not always say the same thing they believe to be true, right? People lie.


Of course I realize this, but unless you're suggesting that most PhDs lie most of the time, I'm not sure how this is relevant.

Just a reminder that these are actually good heuristics to live by, in life in general:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_the_assumptio...




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