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"If people come to a different conclusion than me, it's because they are confused. Here's what I tell myself they do wrong, so that I can pity them without chal

"If people come to a different conclusion than me, it's because they are confused. Here's what I tell myself they do wrong, so that I can pity them without challenging my own certainty." - Stephan Shahinian > The Oracle — Best in the World @ Financial Markets, Macro-Economics, Identifying Geniuses, Forecasting Future

drewcoo 4y ago
You are too kind to this guy. > So I always viewed my writings as a gift to humanity and the future generations, to introduce some new perspectives into the world. https://stephan-shahinian.medium.com/why-i-stopped-writing-473333be2b1c https://stephan-shahinian.medium.com/why-i-stopped-writing-4...
- resource0x 4y ago
  Do you always disregard someone's opinions based on the fact that the person is a weirdo? :-)
  - jamiek88 4y ago
    It takes an atypical human not to.
    - thfuran 4y ago
      And there is, of course, nothing higher to aspire to than to be typical.
      - jamiek88 4y ago
        Not sure how you got my aspirations from my statement of fact?
  - warent 4y ago
    the paragraph above without context doesn't strike me as weird or eccentric. seems more grandiose narcissism which makes someone very dismissable, rightfully
    - POPOSYS 4y ago
      Some weird nations will make you president with such a big gift of god°!
  - coldtea 4y ago
    Why not? If you have limited time span on this Earth, sounds like a prudent default strategy to avoid wasting time with BS - at the cost of a few false negatives...
  - AnimalMuppet 4y ago
    A weirdo? Not necessarily. There can be some gems hidden in a weirdo's thinking. A flaming egomaniacal narcissist? Usually, yes, I disregard them. Maybe this is a flaw in me, but I don't have the patience to sift through that particular flavor of garbage to try to see if there are any gems in there.
- lqet 4y ago
  We mortals just haven't evolved to his Übermensch-level of thinking yet: > I never viewed myself as a typical writer, who is writing for a large audience or the general public. > Instead, I wanted to introduce some new, unconventional or contrarian ideas into the world that most people would not fully understand or be able to follow (at least not currently). > Maybe in several decades once humanity evolves and thought progresses they will understand my ideas and their complexity.
  - joeblubaugh 4y ago
    Hilarious. This is what Strauss and Nietzsche and Bronze-Aged Pervert all claim as well. “Writing for the few who can hear” https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-super-duper-men https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-super-duper-men What a joke.
didntreadarticl 4y ago
So relieved to see this comment at the top. After reading OPs second paragraph I was thinking oh, so by 'confusion' he actually means people with different opinions from him Taken as a list of biases, the article is useful. It never hurts to be reminded about all the different ways we can be led astray. But the problem is, the list of 'mitigations' boils down to become an investigative journalist who researches _everything_ using multiple viewpoints from primary sources, surrounds themselves with people who disagree with them and engages them in lively dialogue, and remains open minded and neutral about everything until the end of time Ain't nobody got time for that We have a limited about of time and energy and need to decide where to spend it. Sometimes it might be more efficient to take received wisdom and run with it rather than launch a research project twenty times a day
- blueflow 4y ago
  "people with different opinion" is some ideal that i found nice a decade ago. But today i think that the objective facts are pretty well known and most trouble are people who cant differentiate between a fact and their opinion. There are some things that we just cannot possibly know and people love to fill these voids with their imagination.
  - AnimalMuppet 4y ago
    The objective facts are more well known than they were a decade ago on things that were a question a decade ago. But now we've got new questions. The objective facts on at least some of them are not yet well known, because the questions are too new.

drewcoo 4y ago

You are too kind to this guy. > So I always viewed my writings as a gift to humanity and the future generations, to introduce some new perspectives into the world. https://stephan-shahinian.medium.com/why-i-stopped-writing-473333be2b1c https://stephan-shahinian.medium.com/why-i-stopped-writing-4...

resource0x 4y ago
Do you always disregard someone's opinions based on the fact that the person is a weirdo? :-)
- jamiek88 4y ago
  It takes an atypical human not to.
  - thfuran 4y ago
    And there is, of course, nothing higher to aspire to than to be typical.
    - jamiek88 4y ago
      Not sure how you got my aspirations from my statement of fact?
- warent 4y ago
  the paragraph above without context doesn't strike me as weird or eccentric. seems more grandiose narcissism which makes someone very dismissable, rightfully
  - POPOSYS 4y ago
    Some weird nations will make you president with such a big gift of god°!
- coldtea 4y ago
  Why not? If you have limited time span on this Earth, sounds like a prudent default strategy to avoid wasting time with BS - at the cost of a few false negatives...
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  A weirdo? Not necessarily. There can be some gems hidden in a weirdo's thinking. A flaming egomaniacal narcissist? Usually, yes, I disregard them. Maybe this is a flaw in me, but I don't have the patience to sift through that particular flavor of garbage to try to see if there are any gems in there.
lqet 4y ago
We mortals just haven't evolved to his Übermensch-level of thinking yet: > I never viewed myself as a typical writer, who is writing for a large audience or the general public. > Instead, I wanted to introduce some new, unconventional or contrarian ideas into the world that most people would not fully understand or be able to follow (at least not currently). > Maybe in several decades once humanity evolves and thought progresses they will understand my ideas and their complexity.
- joeblubaugh 4y ago
  Hilarious. This is what Strauss and Nietzsche and Bronze-Aged Pervert all claim as well. “Writing for the few who can hear” https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-super-duper-men https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-super-duper-men What a joke.

didntreadarticl 4y ago

So relieved to see this comment at the top. After reading OPs second paragraph I was thinking oh, so by 'confusion' he actually means people with different opinions from him Taken as a list of biases, the article is useful. It never hurts to be reminded about all the different ways we can be led astray. But the problem is, the list of 'mitigations' boils down to become an investigative journalist who researches _everything_ using multiple viewpoints from primary sources, surrounds themselves with people who disagree with them and engages them in lively dialogue, and remains open minded and neutral about everything until the end of time Ain't nobody got time for that We have a limited about of time and energy and need to decide where to spend it. Sometimes it might be more efficient to take received wisdom and run with it rather than launch a research project twenty times a day

blueflow 4y ago
"people with different opinion" is some ideal that i found nice a decade ago. But today i think that the objective facts are pretty well known and most trouble are people who cant differentiate between a fact and their opinion. There are some things that we just cannot possibly know and people love to fill these voids with their imagination.
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  The objective facts are more well known than they were a decade ago on things that were a question a decade ago. But now we've got new questions. The objective facts on at least some of them are not yet well known, because the questions are too new.