Who would you trust to give you the objective facts in DART?

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There is nothing anyone can know with 100% certainty, no matter what the source is.

Life is all a series of choices based on probabilities and risk assessments. There is no trust, only the best information at the time. Trust is a label you assign to something AFTER you made the probability calculation in your subconscious mind.  Never before.

The best way to get more accurate at probability calculations and risk assessments is for a person to actually take risks. Otherwise, your life will be riddled with choices based on poor risk calculations by default. like a newborn. Even if you try to learn from the mistakes of others, you won't understand the mechanisms of the consequence if you have not actually experienced a parallel situation.

Imagine you saw a person die in a car crash. If you have never seen a car or driven a car before, you might assume getting into a car will kill you. It would demonstrate poor risk assessment. Only by taking the personal risk of riding in a car or driving a car can you understand the mechanisms that are involved in calculating the actual risk of death due to being in a moving car.

This recent COVID 19 event demonstrates how diverse the public is on personal risk assessment accuracy. Some of the pop videos are downright comical.
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@Barney
Not the top 6 on the forum leaderboard >:C
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@Vader
Not the top 6 on the forum leaderboard >:C
Good luck not trusting yourself :)

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It's kinda funny to think we all get are information from the same damn place.  First hand eyewitness on site verification is the only objective truth you will find in this world. You sure as hell wont find it on the internet. Well as far as politics history and social issues are concerned. How to fix shit videos on you tube are pretty accurate although you do see some real hack job solutions, but they are solutions none the less.
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@Greyparrot
There is nothing anyone can know with 100% certainty.
Are you suggesting that perception is fallible?.....For example; what we see is not necessarily what we are looking at.
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@zedvictor4
One word.

Heisenberg.
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@Greyparrot
I will read up on him.

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How much I trust the people on the leaderboard

Oromagi: 9.5/10 (chooses very specific topics to suit his winning ideals)

Ragnar: 10/10 (never lost a debate)

Ramshutu: 10/10

MisterChris: 8/10 (Young Earth Creationism? jeez louise)

Trent0405: 7/10 (stacks a dozen sources to prove his point)

RM: 5/10 (unless it's about himself)

semperfortis: 8/10

Blamonkey: 10/10

Intelligence: 7/10

TRN: 6/10 (how the hell did he lose, Trump is Racist)
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Probs Ragnar or Oromagi. RationalMadman for like tech tips.
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Definitely RM for tech tips.