• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    2 hours ago

    This is just a statement of faith in your ability to judge these things accurately. Nowhere in here do I see any evidence that you’ve even considered that the reason you’ve changed your attitude towards the tech is that it’s just gotten so good at fooling people that it’s finally got you.

    You don’t gain much from trying to convince me, but you could gain a lot from being more sceptical. People invented science to address the fact that our intuitive understanding doesn’t always reflect reality.

    Science and the collection of objective data stops us from doing this:

    A three-panel illustration of a child with two water glasses on a table in front of them.  In the first panel, the glasses are identical and full.  In the second, someone is pouring one glass's contents into a tall thin glass.  In the third, the tall glass of water has replaced the glass that was poured into it, and the child is pointing to the tall glass to indicate they believe it contains more water.

    There are a bunch of things that our brains just don’t understand intuitively, so we need to check our intuition against measurement. There’s no shame in that, but when it’s pointed out, then you have a chance to check yourself.

    But you don’t seem to understand that. When you say:

    Anyway, you’ll see all this eventually, when some data gets published.

    you are demonstrating that you are the perfect mark for this stuff, because you are not reflecting on your own thought process to see where it might be failing you.