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As far as I can tell, most people, while engaging in real-time conversations, do not feel this discomfort of having insufficient time and resources to verify the other participant's claims (or for that matter, to make sure that one's own speech is not erroneous). Is it because they are too credulous, and haven't developed an instinctive skepticism of every new idea that they hear? Or do they just not take the other person's words seriously (i.e., "in one ear, out the other")?
"Most people do something that I do not do. Is it because there's something wrong with them?"
This is perhaps unfairly uncharitable, but it does seem to be the point you're getting at. Obvious popular alternatives include that you're not credulous enough, or that people are capable of evaluating other people's claims sans wikipedia.