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Someone on the Internet is Wrong

Very often with experience in some specific topic you start catching yourself thinking that many around are spouting some nonsense. This is both a gift and a curse at the same time. On one hand you're triggered every time when someone with a smart face and full confidence speaks bullshit in a talk at a conference or in their YouTube video to tens-hundreds of thousands of people, on the other hand it's the best cure for impostor syndrome.

The first emotional reaction is always something like "Lord, what are you spouting?" and go fight in the comments. There's benefit in this too, by the way. Maybe someone will hear you, maybe you yourself were mistaken and will better understand the author's thoughts. Although fighting is actually hard, you have to come up with and defend arguments, take the opponent's side, this really requires cognitive effort.

Even from my own not very public example, I understand that I write everything primarily to figure out the topic myself, to reflect on it. Everyone knows that the best way to learn is to teach someone. This is the same thing, only you teach nobody, air. Moreover, it's interesting that being an author you'll catch cringe from your own posts years later. It's like with code you wrote a couple of years ago. Trying to figure something out and messing up is the most integral part of learning, just someone does this silently, and someone publicly.

I made an important conclusion for myself long ago that there's almost no correlation between a person's knowledge and the loudness of their voice. Maybe it even works in the reverse direction, while one person speaks, others level up. This is how our world is arranged, most information is generated by those who can hardly be considered experts, but without them these experts wouldn't appear, that's the paradox.

So most often I just pass by, respecting courage and purposefulness. Usually good intentions or professional youth of the author are caught, this doesn't apply to those trying to get views and subscribers just with water on hype, of course.