The thing is people can be very rational and fact based and still be out of their league in various topics or have strong biases that they do or don't realize.

The thing is people can be very rational and fact based and still be out of their league in various topics or have strong biases that they do or don't realize. Here's a thread where someone is getting downvoted for asking a question because people don't like the implication of that question, it doesn't fit the biases of the audience. That's not rational and fact based, its suppressing views we don't like. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337180 There are many examples like that, and one of the dangers of "rational" communities is we assume we're rational and can't mess it up, when really we aren't any different.