MrMind comments on Open thread, Feb. 9 - Feb. 15, 2015 - Less Wrong
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How about trying to make some of them less stupid? Educating people through blog articles, lectures or simply informed discussions helped me with the same problem.
In my experience, the overwhelming majority of the time people don't respond well. Example - people commit the Fallacy of Gray all the time. I haven't had much success when pointing this out and trying to explain it. But I do agree that it's something to strive towards.