> I assume after some time you start to assemble a fairly high dimensional model of reality on these various topics. During this journey, has it ever caught you

> I assume after some time you start to assemble a fairly high dimensional model of reality on these various topics. During this journey, has it ever caught your attention that the articles you read assert that reality is(!) a certain way, but due to your greater depth of knowledge, you know that the article is not actually true? To be honest, I think there's still quite a long way to go before I can reach this point. I've only started this process a few months ago, and it takes many, many hours to discuss all the ins and outs of every subject. I wish I could spend my days doing this, but unfortunately I also have social obligations such as work and studies :-). Perhaps in a few years from now I'll be able to truly feel this for a variety of subjects, but that's far from being the case right now and the only articles which might make me experience this feeling generally are articles from mainstream media talking about stuff I've known in detail for a long period of time (most particularly video games and computer science); in these particular cases, the Gell-Mann amnesia effect is definitely real. Now, when there is a topic I know absolutely nothing about, I'll still read many news articles and assume that all of them are true to begin with, just so that I can compare data and opinions. Only then will I try to read more specialized works, such as books, in order to see to what extent what I've found corresponds to what whizzes have to say on this subject. Talking about newspaper articles, I also try to read fewer "breaking news" articles, but rather try to take a more distant approach which consists in reading articles several months after events occurred in order to get a clearer view of what has happened and the impact of the event in question. The main drawback is that I'm not necessarily fully aware of what's going on in the world 24/7, but at least I find it generates way less anxiety and enables to take a step back on what's happening. > My intuition is that you'd want to be very restrictive with who gets on (and stays on), and you'd need to have multiple levels of permissions. For people to ascend to higher levels, they would (among other things) first be required to develop the ability to think in certain ways. I find this idea very appealing, because poor thinking skills are a fundamental root cause of everything....so, having a system where quality (near perfect) thinking is not just a goal, but is mandatory....this would be something the world has never seen before. Absolutely agreed! You perfectly summarized what I had in mind. Everything else that you said is very interesting; by the bye, it is the very first time I have such an in-depth discussion with someone on HN and it's really great to see where it can lead and all the ideas it may generate. Thank you!