Not everyone’s opinion is valuable. I shouldn’t even have an opinion.

Having a strong opinion when you know nothing about a topic is your political right, sure, but it’s also a symptom of a psychological problem.

Having a society filled with such people becomes a social problem and social media has become a vector of strong, devicive, unfounded opinions for over a decade.

Do you just have to react to that thing that AOC said? About that thing that Tucker Carlson said? About that thing the cops may or may not have done in a city you’ve never been to?

We have built tools that give an asymmetric advantage to liers and lunatics. Social media is not a level playing field and the idea that we are powerless to correct his problem because any efforts we make amount to “censorship” is insane. It’s masochistic and it’s demonstrably harming society. But, this is a hard problem to solve.

Sam Harris