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> "The HN crowd is as biased as anybody else."

As much I loathe self-aggrandizement, I wish this were true so that people weren't so generally wrong and biased.

Most people end up highly correlating to the beliefs they were brought up in.

Most people suddenly start tuning into politics and immediately think they understand issues like economics way out of their league, and understand better than people whose PhD and job it is. Of course if someone were to come tell them their initial impression of their career is more knowledgeable than them, they would laugh immensely.

In many places I see most people sharing things that are completely one-sided and often easily debunked by elementary critical thinking. HN barely registers on the wave of cruft that is the rest of people's political opinions.

It's just too bad it has to come from both sides of NYT and echo_chamber_rant.blogspot.com.