>The level of downvoting and non-engagement about my comments you can observe on HN is just a symptom of a humanity that simply don't care above the surface lay

>The level of downvoting and non-engagement about my comments you can observe on HN is just a symptom of a humanity that simply don't care above the surface layer of attention nor care deeply about the human condition and is auto-persuaded, in a self-fulfiling prophethy manner that those topics are already well explored by the institutions More likely, it is the expected reaction to the fact that crackpottery takes an order of magnitude more effort to debunk than to write. It's okay to have non-mainstream ideas, but the post above is written in a way that's hard to distinguish from crackpottery. When someone engages with crackpottery and responds point-by-point, the result is likely to be a very long subthread where no one changes their mind. It is a tremendous waste of time, and so empirically this results in silent downvotes. >a much more efficient process for finding potent ignored research, which is the norm considering half of scientific papers have nearly zero external citations and are therefore a water droplet in the ocean An enormous amount of studies are bad. There exist a few hidden gems that have zero citations while being high quality, but if you focus only on the existence of the few hidden gems while ignoring the ocean of statistically dubious, p-hacked, or downright fraudulent papers with zero citations, this is terrible bias. I suspect you have a strong distrust of the mainstream, and you might put too much confidence in the significance of small ignored papers. It is easy to be very excited about breakthrough interventions that reduce all cause mortality by 410%. We all want those breakthrough to be real, and we want the little guy with zero citations to be right against the 'mediocrity'. But that's bias. The reality is that those papers are almost always wrong, and you do more harm by giving them indiscriminate attention, peddling cures that don't work to vulnerable people.