Talking to LLMs or reading books is much more effective in updating my priors. Talking to people is mostly ego, signaling, misunderstandings and axiological differences.
Please take this as a sincere comment, rather than an attack: what you're describing is much more likely to be a problem you need to work on, than an issue with humanity as a whole.
Please take this as a sincere comment, rather than an attack: what you're describing is much more likely to be a problem you need to work on, than an issue with humanity as a whole.
I didn't mean to imply there's an issue with humanity, just that talking to people is less effective, though maybe more fun.
Effective?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179916