Which is kinda proven given that I currently can't reply to you because HN is rate limiting me...
FYI: this comment took 3 hours to make
I think intelligent people are abnormally capable of self-deception.
If you find yourself on average on the opposite side of the vast majority of smart people the first thing that is in order is self refection. While being smart doesn't make them correct the last thing that would be useful would be to dismiss the majority of smart folks.
Smart people are better at contriving complex justifications that seem right but are in fact wrong.
People don’t usually set out with the intention of deceiving themselves.
Not because we are all trying to push some left wing agenda.
I don't see any of that in the above comment. Did they edit it to make it less so?