[jason-phillips]

> HN comments (laypeople in general) tend to make very confident and very wrong comments on {X}

Yes, it's annoying. From conspiracy theorists to supposedly smart people with PhD's, I'll catch them in a fiction. "You just made all of that up," I'll say, to which they reply with handwaving and equivocation. Why are we so reticent to be comfortable with our own ignorance and hold our tongue?

[blanketlamp]

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to offer an opinion borne out of reasonable ignorance, but the critical part missing most of the time is that you have to be open to actually being corrected without becoming combative.

Too many people have their ego and sense of self worth wrapped up in being correct on the internet, regardless of the topic.