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[โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this seems to work better on techy people who don't like thinking about politics but understand the technical details

Not weird at all; this was the case with cryptocurrency too. Otherwise qualified and intelligent people would invest in centralized scam coins because they had no understanding of economics, just tech.

It's sad but cool that it works the same way with social capital.

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Intelligence and expertise is worth pursuing for the benefit that comes from learning for the sake of learning, but it is true that there is a danger to knowing more and more about a very narrow subject in that it becomes more and more seductive to believe that the thing you are an expert in is a key to understanding everything else and that this gives you a righteous vantage to look down upon the genius of others and judge from afar.

Some of the smartest people there has ever been or likely will ever be throughout history have time and time again completely undermined their potential by falling prey to this delusional drug of a belief.