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The easiest way to filter out 99 percent of this is to ignore anything that has no impact on your life (ie doesn't pay rent). Most of the people you could be listening to aren't profitable, but also won't lead you astray: you'll just go on the same regardless. In the final percentage point there are still a lot of confusing opinions that various smart people have, in regards to diet, morality, education, exchethera, but at that point I think it's usually more productive to cross reference the specific opinions rather than look at people as contrarians or not. If you can't cross-check a belief either through reference to other sources, or through your own studies or experience, then it probably isn't relevant one way or the other.
Eh? If I was renting, I think that would have an impact on my life -- so maybe this is yet another metaphor I never heard of.
If everyone was processing reality to the best of their analytical (and other) abilities, and honestly passing on the conclusions they reach then virtuosity at recognizing rational fallacies would go a lot further than I think it actually does; I'm afraid much of what we need is a social understanding of others.
Just FWIW, Aspergers types, which many I encounter here are self-proclaimed to be, have a chance to do this better than other people, because they have to do consciously what others have no idea that they're doing. By the way, book recommendation: The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch. Very funny and enlightening, about an Aspergers/non-Aspergers mixed marriage. My wife and I had a good time reading it.
Yup. See: Making beliefs pay rent.
It's from The Sequences, which you should read. Specifically, it's from the post "Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)".