- close your own knowledge gaps so it’s harder for people to exploit what you don’t know. - i.e., minimize your own [[{3.1b} data voids are gaps in information online|data voids]]. - if you have general literacy around a topic, you rely less on your literacy around a certain text. - *for example*: - if a person claims that grass is blue, it doesn’t matter how well you can “evaluate the claim” if you already know that grass is generally not blue. - makes you less susceptible to manipulation and radicalization. - [[2026-08-06]] but also [[{4.3a} our personal epistemology is the context in which we think]] and how we determine what counts as knowledge.