> How can one believe any discourse on the internet when the other person on the other end could easily be an unsupervised 9-year-old. I think you'd be able to

> How can one believe any discourse on the internet when the other person on the other end could easily be an unsupervised 9-year-old. I think you'd be able to spot a 9-year-old attempting to engage in "discourse on the internet." However, I think it's common to engage with people who are in their late teens to early 20s, who are at the point in their lives where their intellectual self-confidence has increased far beyond where their actual understanding is, but they've yet to realize that. They're fluent enough with adult language that they're hard to spot, but they've basically only absorbed one or two big ideas which they mistake for the gospel truth of everything.