[ExI] bad news for smart people

[William Flynn Wallace]

Thanks, Adrian - please supply a few of the malicious reasons.   bill w

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:38 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:37 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> What Adrian is talking about, I think, is what I do:  "Alert.
>> possible dissonance ahead."  So when that alert goes off, I pay close
>> attention to my own ideas and the contrary message.  If I don't I may say
>> later "Whoa, wait a minute.  That's not what I think at all.  Why didn't I
>> ask a question?"
>> If in a book I"ll put a ?? by it.
>>
>
> Close enough.  One trick is knowing when to invoke that alert, because
> people can and will try to trigger it when it doesn't apply, for a variety
> of essentially malicious reasons.
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