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Educated people will remain educated. Ignorant people will remain ignorant. Angry people will remain angry. Block lists aren’t going to make a material difference in winning hearts and minds. The average reading level in the United States is between 7th and 8th grade, for example. Users will pick what they want to read, and they should be able to.



I wonder what’s the max lexile score for 144 characters


Seems to be the wrong measure for the angry dopamine machine. I should’ve mentioned critical thinking and emotional intelligence as well in my first comment. Citations below.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-71263-z

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/430608-trending-science-...

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/press/mit-sloan-study-finds-thinkin...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07779




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