It was clear that you have a high opinion of your own intelligence
No, I have a very low opinion of other people’s intelligence. I’m a fool. But a fool surrounded by morons starts to look pretty clever after a while.
Not that this is relevant to the question here: why is Eliezer’s audience not concerned with finding or even looking for his errors in reasoning and argument? They’re not hard to find. It doesn’t take a great deal of intelligence or rhetorical experience to identify them. I can only presume that there is no interest. (Lack of interest in being correct seems to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, reasons people are wrong.)
No, I have a very low opinion of other people’s intelligence. I’m a fool. But a fool surrounded by morons starts to look pretty clever after a while.
Not that this is relevant to the question here: why is Eliezer’s audience not concerned with finding or even looking for his errors in reasoning and argument? They’re not hard to find. It doesn’t take a great deal of intelligence or rhetorical experience to identify them. I can only presume that there is no interest. (Lack of interest in being correct seems to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, reasons people are wrong.)