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by wruza 1073 days ago
Remaining uncertain. I’ve seen many people becoming anxious or abnormally curious in any sort of uncertainty. One word, one question, one event and they can’t help but rush into investigating. Happens at all scales. From “You know, X said something about you yesterday” to “Why the universe exists”. I learned to be indifferent until the data comes out naturally. Otherwise you’re prone to manipulation at all scales, e.g. social life, religion and pseudoscience.

It’s sometimes funny when you tell “okay” to anything supposedly intriguing and they go crazy asking why don’t you care. Enjoy your manipulation failure anxiety.

How

Idk. Probably by self-education in general and by looking at how many things that were uncertain cleared up in a non-obvious way.