Internet can connect people, so that Flat Earthers can expose Australians being all actors, because Australia doesn’t exist!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding.com#2008_days-in-a-week_debate
Or spending multiple days arguing whether there are 7 or 8 days in a week.
This is the best thing I’ve seen on the internet all week. A whole 8 days!
Unlimited access to information, including finite amounts of knowledge, but also unlimited access to unlimited amounts of not-knowledge-at-all.
In the past there were gatekeepers. That sounds like a bad thing. In some ways it was. But, at least Walter Cronkite wasn’t allowed to go on a rant about the chemicals turning the frogs gay.
This is something I realised growing. Information and actual knowledge are two separate things.
The former is withour filter and the latter is under scrutiny for proper verification. In the hands of layman, it can be impossible to properly determine.
The current LLM mania is just an extension of that ‘validation through evidence’ that has been on-going.
A TV with 100 channels of content and 1 billion channels of static.
Unlimited amounts of an audience for everyone 🙃
Flat Earther: Complicated explanation on why it’s flat
Me: Your argument is flawed. Look the earth is flat but your argument is missing the important part.
Flat Earther: (leans in with excitement)
Me: The oceans, all of them, none of them are carbonated… all flat!
It’s not flat, mountains exist.
Bumpiness is not flat!
Untill I see an ocean bubble from the carbonation I’ll believe it’s flat
You think 2005 was like that?
Also in 2005: a forum post about gingerbread recipies hijacked for a 20 page long debate about the existance of God
Nobody read it, cause nobody wrote it.
Critical thinking must have reached criticality and melted down.
The earth is fat.
