Alternatively, it's all about the person. There's a great old article from WaitButWhy (when they actually used to publish articles) about your 'inner mammoth.'

Alternatively, it's all about the person. There's a great old article from WaitButWhy (when they actually used to publish articles) about your 'inner mammoth.' [1] It's a great article and I can't really give fair cliffs of, but I think one of the most important is the point about perceived self importance. We mostly don't care about other people online. Of the thousands of people I've interacted with on Hacker News, I'd struggle to recall more than maybe 3 names. Sometimes there's a ding, or dang, of familiarity when I see a name, but that's generally just about it. I think most can empathize with that, yet the thing is - everybody else feels that way about you as well. Yet in so many situations we attribute far more importance and 'centralization' to ourselves than exists. Once you realize you're just another face in the crowd, it's much easier to just not care - which is essentially a prerequisite to freeing your own thoughts, expressions, and so on. This applies to real life as well. And the funny thing is, you'll often find people are more receptive to the 'real you' than the imaginary you that you thought you 'should' be. So I'll take the other side on this one. I've had countless arguments on the internet, and I feel far more the learned from it all. But when you don't really care about what other people think, things like argumentative fallacies suddenly feel like something for idiots. I mean you're not only wasting the other person's time, but far more importantly - you're wasting your own as well. [1] - https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-opinions-run-life.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-op...