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by cainxinth 449 days ago
Knowledge certainly helps, but I’m talking about something more fundamental: your bullshit detector.

Even when you lack subject matter expertise about something, there are certain universal red flags that skeptics key in on. One of the biggest ones is: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” and its corollary: “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”