> Isn’t it just tapping into the need to tell people things you know and feel good about how smart you are? As I said: this putative explanation predicts we wo

> Isn’t it just tapping into the need to tell people things you know and feel good about how smart you are? As I said: this putative explanation predicts we would have all sorts of great free things that we don't have, e.g., free reliable news, free trustworthy product reviews, good documentation for python libraries, etc., etc. Yes, it's possible to tell a bunch of just-so stories, but the number of free parameters you need always exceeds the amount of data explained.