ruphail

I've noticed this flaw in my own mind where I'm either skeptical of everybody, or basically trust everybody. If I’m skeptical of everybody I tend to say more false things, and if I basically trust everybody then I’m a lot more open and honest. Importantly, once I’m skeptical of everybody I start checking more and more, trying to verify things I once took on faith or contemplating exactly what I think I know and how I think I know that.

This is something that happens to me when I’ve been successfully lied to, and not so much when someone is lieng to me. Like... (read more)

There is the risk that you are the lemon, and selling warranties can also turn into its own lemon market (Analogizing this to insurance markets with high levels of fraud).

Some thoughts. Apologies if any of this is overconfident, trivial or otherwise unhelpful.

• You did not go to the common man. You went to the confused philosophy enjoyer. By default this is what a philosophy meetup is since most of philosophy is confused. 
• It seems like you spent your time there caricaturing them instead of gathering information.
• Perhaps this metaphor is flawed or irrelevant somehow, but you don’t get better at chess by discussing chess moves in a group (citation needed). I suspect that you have some expectations about group reasoning that

"I didn't hear that" when people's low level processing fails to parse words someone said despite being perfectly able to receive the audio. not usually playing fool, in my experience

That’s why I appreciate a “hey” or some other initial phrase before someone starts speaking to me. It gets me ready to parse words. For some people I talk to if I start speaking without that, I’ll mostly get a “what did you say?”.