We eventually find ways to affect reality, so there is something in our method, which is:

people who are not smart enough to recognize that they are not informed enough, nor in most cases smart enough, to understand anything about the subject of your question, and they will be quite happy to answer

You take a point an push it until it breaks. Then you oh, well. And (with some friction) erase all contradictions it has left.

Does AI erase? (not a rhetoric q)