SCOTT ALEXANDER on Instagram: "🧠 Not every comment deserves your nervous system. There is a pattern I have had to learn the hard way. Trolling is rarely about truth. It is about impact. Here is what I mean. • 🧠 Troll comments are often engineered to trigger you, not challenge you • 🎭 The goal is frequently attention, conflict, and emotional extraction • 🔁 A reaction can become reinforcement. Response becomes reward • 🧩 Research links trolling behaviour to darker trait patterns in some indiv