The internet did get rid of ETI theories of UFOs and probably facts. Now we have Wikipedia and ubiquitous cameras.
Instead we have WTF is THAT UFOs called UAP, and singing abandoned buildings, but no ghosts.
Part of the problem now is fake news and we’re about to lose video authentication the first time someone makes a convincing AI-generated street incident.
The fake news honestly frightens me. Lord knows what will happen because of it but there’s many truly terrible possibilities
Assuming all the information on the internet was true, this could have been reevaluated.
But in today’s world unfortunately internet is more fabricated information than real information
I don’t particularly remember many people saying that. I think they were all up their asses about iq.
Ah, yes, that all meaning number that represents your ability to exceed at very specific and biased tasks. Love it
I don’t think they’re too bad, but than again I did score 1st.
There was a lot of talk about how being able to access any information would drastically increase the average knowledge base, which could possibly increase IQ.
Admittedly they probably didn’t expect an enormous, sophisticated, and well-coordinated effort to promote ignorance and push so much misinformation so as to effectively muddy the waters of that information either though.
That’s basically the plot of brave new world.
where’s the soma?
It’s called social media.
SOcial Media Addiction (SOMA)
Oh you’ve seen Seikon No Qwaser too?
well yeah but probably they should have expected it …
People don’t want to be corrected, they want to be validated.
People want to be correct.
For some that means never being questioned. For some, it means always questioning themselves.
You are right.
You’re right about them being right.
And you’re wrong, do your research
Uhht
Um, actually, people don’t want to be told they’re incorrect whether directly or indirectly.
/s
I always knew that it was due to christianity
tbf the internet is also jam-packed with misinformation which doesn’t only counteract people learning the truth, but also makes them confident about their false views
Who knew stupidity was always the lies of man
“You can’t deny science when you have a radio made by science and see all the electronic”
Turns out, once radios are complex enough, you don’t see the electronic anymore
We lost something big with the transition to digital, and that’s DIY hardware built entirely from discrete components.
Nowadays, everything uses a microcontroller.
There was a sweet spot when computers were actually made out of transistors.
Nowadays, they’re all made by arcane magic.
And to follow up on that:
;D
Sufficiently Advanced Technology.
Or completely glued together and you get a cease and desist when you start tinkering with it.
C&Ds make great firestarters.
Having access to information doesn’t help people who can’t read or don’t have the ability to comprehend what they’re reading.
it’s not just reading skills, it’s also ability to cross-correlate information to other information and perform consistency checks.
"You’re not just a regular moron, you were DESIGNED to be a moron. " - Portal 2
Probably the darkest truth - modern moronity is generally by design, not by misfortune.
Nearly everything I’ve learned in my life is thanks to the internet but sure. I guess I get the point
You have to teach people to teach themselves though. Just because someone has access to a book doesn’t mean they’ll read it.
Is logical thought teachable though? You can read all the books, but if you can’t correlate the information, does it matter? And I should say it that way, but more along the lines of two people can read the same set of literature and come to two different conclusions, and somehow we determine one of those conclusions to be right.
Is logical thought teachable though?
I should definitely think so. I would that history would show that, as well. Ideas and suspicion/critical thinking seem like they can possibly be inherent, but they could definitely use some help/a boost in some individuals where it seems to lie dormant. 😅 And the earlier in life we awaken these abstract ideas and thoughts that not everything you see and hear is truth, the more natural it will become. Just like anything else you want to teach your children. And teaching people to teach themselves is one thing I think is omitted in school. Actively practicing and explicitly focusing on how to effectively teach yourself something. Studying Study Techniques. It’s an important skill.
You can’t teach a fish to fly, and you can’t teach a republican to think critically.
I think we just have to accept that reading (critically) isn’t for everybody. There’s just people who prefer to talk out of their asses.
And we’ll have to find a way to live with that.
Wrong. It is a lack of access to information. Good luck trying to find something useful on the modern Internet.
Yes, in the mid-late 90s Internet was making people cleverer. Because we didn’t have kids, influencers, politicians and activists on the Internet. It was a source of technical information managed by technical specialists. It was a good time. And you destroyed it.
In a way… Nothing new under the sun
Internet became bad when it got controlled by engagement seeking corporations.
More specifically, the internet failed because society decided to dedicate an entire generation of the world’s most brilliant minds to the problem of ad optimization. This directly led to the modern clickbait/ragebait disinformation problem.
If we had just taken those same engineers and said to solve any other problem, it would’ve been done ages ago.
I think the problem stems of the fact that google was convinced in 2000 that the internet needs to make money to keep being developed.
And that belief is primarily inspired by neoliberal belief that everything needs to make money.
However, information should be free. And so should the internet.
Yes, in the mid-late 90s Internet was making people cleverer. Because we didn’t have kids, influencers, politicians and activists on the Internet.
As a former child who was on the internet in the mid to late 90s, this is news to me ;p Come on, eternal September was in ‘93!
Activists on the internet are at least as old as Usenet, as well.
It kind of sounds like this is a list of people you don’t like using the internet, not people who actually made the internet worse (like business majors and programmers that turned every website into SEO mush).
Wrong. Having been in group chats with people I know are real and have been debunked consistently since 2020, it doesn’t matter. 80% of people pick their reality based on feels, and 30% are straight up fascists.
In the mid 90s the internet was composed primarily of the 20% of the pop who are capable of reflection.
In the 90s chat rooms/forums were a cesspool, just as they are today. But the web, while rough around the edges in terms of design/organization (hence the need for search engines) was great for information. Vast majority of websites had good intentions. That is not the case today.
How did we determine the percentage based on feels?
It’s feels all the way down.
but thoughts all the way up. ;-)
Vibes are acceptable if they’re not taking priority over real data.
Vibes based on my special interest in personalities/psychology as I’m on the other end of the scale and have been trying to figure out the feelers all my life.
Not discounting them either btw. But undoubtedly they have a blind spot for pish as how an argument makes them feel supersedes objectivity.
Debunking is fruitless. Even if you can prove something objectively as a lie and get them to admit it, it won’t change their wider ideology or make them question the source going forward. Can just be explained away and ignored.
People above average intelligence also overestimate the mentally capacity of the average person. They can’t evaluate information so what other choice do they have. Few weeks ago a friend tried to tell us smoking a vape was just smoking a battery. Not speaking figuratively. When pushed on this she said ‘look how small it is! you’re smoking the battery’. Explanations on how a battery heats the coil and vaporises the liquid were met with a blank stare. Can you imagine having that little understanding on how the world around you works? Blows my mind.
Wrong. It is a lack of access to information. Good luck trying to find something useful on the modern Internet.
Yes, in the mid-late 90s Internet was making people cleverer. Because we didn’t have kids, influencers, politicians and activists on the Internet. It was a source of technical information managed by technical specialists. It was a good time. And you destroyed it.
this is a dumb take. the existence of wrong information doesn’t negate the existence of good information on the same medium. it’s like saying “i can’t improve my physical fitness because i can’t go to a gym,” while ignoring the possibility of bodyweight exercise at home. the access is there, people just don’t want to put in any work and want to blame something other than themselves.
so no, it’s not a lack of access to information that’s causing widespread stupidity. case in point: maga–how many of us have been outright shouting that trump is a conman, and here’s the literal proof–the information, which is good, is right there. and yet people still choose to death threaten dr. fauci because they “don’t like” the good information.
the existence of wrong information doesn’t negate the existence of good information on the same medium.
When there are no proper ways to sift through and structure that information, it kind of does, but your point overall is still not wrong, just this part I think misses part of the picture.
people just don’t want to put in any work and want to blame something other than themselves.
Yes, although I dare say that it is not as simple as saying “just do better” and “putting work in” - when there’s a massive amount of work and resources put into getting people de-facto addicted to primarily ad-driven engagement with mostly garbage information.
case in point: maga–how many of us have been outright shouting that trump is a conman, and here’s the literal proof–the information, which is good, is right there. and yet people still choose to death threaten dr. fauci because they “don’t like” the good information.
That, however, very much stands. The original vision really, really thought that truth and quality would win out in a “marketplace of ideas”. However, narcissistic appeasement and a combination of humiliating and then making people feel powerful by proxy wins out, especially considering there is no guiding consensus.
Availability to information is important, and that includes making it possible to sift through the mountains of nonsense, including teaching how to spot nonsense. But on top of that, it requires a solid foundation for society, and a consensus to direct what is true and what not (science, functioning professional journalism, etc.) Otherwise, when there is no consensus guiding towards (but not setting completely in stone) “truth”, it will always be whatever is emotionally convenient from individual to individual - and the dynamics of the system will favour information that both panders to narcissistic self-affirmation (not necessarily positive emotions), as well as beating you down in a way that you crave those from your ego being made fragile to begin with.
Yes, although I dare say that it is not as simple as saying “just do better” and “putting work in” - when there’s a massive amount of work and resources put into getting people de-facto addicted to primarily ad-driven engagement with mostly garbage information.
true, nothing can be that simple. it boils down to education imo, where people should be learning, beginning in childhood, how to make good decisions about what information can be considered plausible, and what is more likely to be agenda-driven propaganda. but as you said, we have to deal with a large and powerful group of puppetmasters who don’t want people questioning what they’re told and cutting the strings that make them work and toil day in and out because that could lead to people deciding to not produce X value while getting compensated with some ten thousandth of a percentage of X
Yeah, but it’s the equivalent of gyms opening a ficking McDonalds inside so you have to work out in the smell.
The thing is, while it might be good enough for some people to find information, people on average get distracted and scammed by the efforts to scam and distract people.
Propaganda works, that’s why they do it.
right, so if you want to argue propaganda, not access, is the cause of stupidity, that would be more valid than saying “people are stupid because they lack access to information.” the premise is wrong
It was the lack of access to the right information. Most people won’t spend hours researching a topic. Most people don’t spend any time on seeking outbinformation. They only absorb whatever information they happen to come across. And liars are especially adept at being loud. So they’re the first, and often only, to be heard.
In a world without corruption, a ministry of truth would work wonders. In our world, I don’t know what would work.
Not the people’s fault, now we disinformation and the firehose of falsehoods 🙃
And without well-rounded education, which is not perfect like liberal arts we lack the ability to digest information critically. I mean you could tell people about Edward Bernays or say Alan Dulles or the evils of capitalism/imperialism and how the rich objectify us and they’ll still sit there eating their ice cream at Disneyland drooling in their hedonistic stupor… Maybe really this is my own personal anxiety and as time progresses the colective subconscious will eventually awaken into a wrathful hurricane of non-discriminative re-Alignment… As we try to manage these transitions, We become a nihilistic and we lean into it and just allow nature to take its course. For justice is always served, not in my time, not in my interest. Thank gawd, all men die.We are an anti-social society that rewards anti-social behavior. I just think about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. We poison the well we drink from and without self-awareness, curiosity kills the cat… Superposition can eat my ass. And it could be described as the Imperial Boomerang or in the military communities, like intelligence, it’s called blowback. I think we live in the era of the Limp Dick, the self-fulfilling prophecy, the exponential feedback loop on a road to nowhere with tracks coming to an end… And peoples the likes of Elon Musk, who are high on ketamine or any other chemical., are sitting there, staring at themselves in the mirror. As if it’s their world and we’re just living in it. As if they are somehow not a part of the collective. The Singularity is just our collective ego focused on just a few ambitious fools and artificial intelligence is our collective efforts mirrored back to ourselves with the wizard of Oz turning the dial. There is no wonder that this “man” edong breeds like a rat he knows what he is doing is wrong, but he just can’t help himself… It makes sense that the population is declining, and that’s a good thing. It shows that the people are actually somewhat waking up at least subconsciously. Elon is no overman… But a reprobate and a rapist… Relative, none of us have free will. But it doesn’t justify not focusing on maintaining ones own individual autonomy. I don’t tell my immune system what to do. I don’t tell my lungs to breathe. The collective self needs these things to happen in order for me (ego) to exist. It’s kind of like a paradox, but a paradox is just… We are blinded to the truths of reality, somewhere down the causational chain, there is still some form of binary. We just can’t see it… I’m not talking about being passive, and I’m not talking about not playing your part in any revolutionary action. I’m just saying, know, your place in the natural hierarchy and exhibit or execute your nature. When I see incredibly anti-social and destructive behavior in our society, I don’t cry out to gawd. I know why things happen the way they do. Possibly we’ve gone past the point of no return. We spit in the face of the natural hierarchy for so long. We cut down trees and wipe our ass. Mark Fisher killed himself because he was anxious and he didn’t want to watch the World Burn. But me? I’m okay with it. I’m curious to see what will happen. I do know the piglets, the imperial piglets eventually, either them or their children will face consequences. Justice is always served. I don’t want what the rich man has. I think the rich man is lazy, tacky and gross. I like bottom feeders and beneficial parasites. No War but the Class War.
Chapter 57 of the Tao Te Ching
Rule a nation with justice. Wage war with surprise moves. Become master of the universe without striving. How do I know that this is so? Because of this!
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men’s weapons, The more trouble in the land. The more ingenious and clever men are, The more strange things happen. The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.
Therefore the sage says: I take no action and people are reformed. I enjoy peace and people become honest. I do nothing and people become rich. I have no desires and people return to the good and simple life.
Information has always been controlled, obscured, and distorted by capital, hegemony., etc. Not to mention nonstop brainwashing from birth.
For example… Where I live, kids still grow up worshiping flags, enslavers, enslaver pacts, capitalism, etc… And the state is increasingly denying them access to the internet/phones, alternative information, etc.
now I am curious where you live
