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This may be ridiculous advice but go find lots of media that shows experts being wrong. Go find videos of cops beating up innocent people. Go look through the n
by anm89 4y ago
This may be ridiculous advice but go find lots of media that shows experts being wrong. Go find videos of cops beating up innocent people. Go look through the news from 10 20 or 30 years and find people saying things they were sure about that they were wrong about or that they said would be good but ended up causing a lot of problems.
Keep doing this until you have ingrained in yourself
1) People that sound smart often don't know what they are talking about
2) Authority figures often don't have your best interests at heart
3) and learn the specific smells of what these kind of statements tend to look and sound like
And I guess eventually you could build up an intuition for when people are full of shit.
You can also do the opposite and try to build up intuition for when people were right about things that sounded like bullshit to you.
And if you want to get meta about it, listen to this philosopher talk about bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RO93OS0Sk&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RO93OS0Sk&t=1s