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I recommended it because … I had just began listening to it then scrolled and saw this post, but also because I admire his critical thinking skills; he could have put out an hour long video of himself running around and screaming over clips of looting and earthquakes while warning us about the apocalypse and which loadout to run…
But he didn’t. He created a criteria to answer the question then looked at available data. He could have gotten 2x more views, too…
Higher intelligence increases your ability to rationalize anything to yourself, and I think some people are less aware of the influence of various cognitive biases on their judgement.
Fairly unintuitive rabbit hole… leading into a network of warrens.