And when you have a billion people doing this, that's a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.

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[–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

People have been spouting authoritative-sounding bullshit about things they have no business talking about for as long as humans have had language. The only difference is that now, any single humans bullshit is able to reach everyone on the globe with a smartphone in seconds.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Agreed. It's an old problem. Call it "bad epistemology" (BE).

    The method of Science was arguably contrived to combat BE (or at least to offer an advantageous alternative).

    Which gives us a nice spectrum. On one end strong reference to observation, delivering high-quality knowledge (IE science etc). On the other end a recursive BE machine.

    Social media has turned the BE into a kaiju. A reverse scientific enlightenment.

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