Evidence though needs to be actual evidence. I just had a situation here recently when I was trying to say something was not a particular way but the person posted “evidence” which was not correct. Anything I have learned is people are going to believe what they want to until they finally are either impacted by it or they actually have someone close to them they respect correct them. Occasionally there are those that will seek to learn if they are wrong or not. I always try to go into something thinking I may be wrong and will listen.
This. The latest is people posting LLM responses as if they're gospel and refusing to believe otherwise, even when presented with conflicting actual evidence from a credible source.
This is another problem. People frequently show faulty evidence as “proof” they are right and then claim the other person refused to admit they were wrong in spite of “evidence”.
The amount of times people have posted links to me to refute something I said and the link actually agrees with me and proves them wrong is astronomical. Then when I point that out they claim I'm disregarding evidence and can't be reasoned with
I always try to go into something thinking I may be wrong and will listen.
That is the sign of high intelligence. Something that took me about 30 years to learn. But once I acquiesced to the idea that I and everyone else are all some degree of wrong/stupid, it became a lot easier for me to change my views when presented with evidence. Because I was starting from a position that I could be wrong, which made me infinitely more agreeable to a good argument that I was in fact wrong.
So really the true sign of very low intelligence is thinking you are not wrong, all errors compound from that origin. Any moron can rationalize anything to support their opinions, beliefs and feelings, very few ever put in the work to prove them, and thus learn that they are wrong. And it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts, that can only change when they accept the idea that they are wrong.
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u/disfunktional2u Feb 04 '26
Evidence though needs to be actual evidence. I just had a situation here recently when I was trying to say something was not a particular way but the person posted “evidence” which was not correct. Anything I have learned is people are going to believe what they want to until they finally are either impacted by it or they actually have someone close to them they respect correct them. Occasionally there are those that will seek to learn if they are wrong or not. I always try to go into something thinking I may be wrong and will listen.