Ogmios

Okay, that’s legitimately one of the best ideas I’ve ever heard online.

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Did… you downvote yourself?

Eh… everyone has different reasons, and I’m sure there’s a healthy diversity of types involved in this shit.

I saw a really interesting Ted Talk from a Google engineer waaaaaaay back in or before 2012 (I think), discussing the emerging danger of algorithms isolating people in echo chambers.

Apparently the problem we’ve got right now is not that people can’t foresee these problems, but rather that those in charge, for whatever reason, are completely ignoring the warnings from their own engineers.

Just run them on a machine you don’t care about, if you’re concerned.

That’s the fun part!

Yes, lets ignore real problems in favour of turning them into partisan shouting matches.

It’s worked so well until now.

The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

Very interesting read, but I’ll disagree with the last line. There is a vast amount of information communicated face to face which simply can’t be translated to the written word, and so very important cognitive tools which have evolved over millions of years simply don’t function the way they’re built to function. If you look at some of the most celebrated intellectuals ever, like Socrates, you’ll find that they never actually trusted the written word. My own ancestral culture literally forbid recording knowledge in writing, trusting only the spoken word.

You’re completely misrepresenting OP. They’re saying that they believe science is a good thing, not that it simply exists.

This has been an enduring problem with all journalism.

Clearly they would rather be consumed by other things instead.

Well we’re going to suffer until enough people do figure it out.

The sad part is that this is a very well known phenomena, yet people become too consumed by everything else to even care about learning of such warnings left behind by long dead civilizations.

Huh, that kind of gets the juices going, and I’m wondering how much we’ve been trying to make our problems fit the technologies we’ve built, rather than the other way around.

Civilization exists because enough people know that we’re better off working together than against each other.

The guy’s an idiot, no doubt. But he does have a point.

People on social media come from all walks of life, and have many different voices, some of them retarded. If you don’t want to engage with people like him, that’s entirely understandable, and probably encouraged. If you DO want to engage with them, however, you should try and actually understand the message, instead of sneering like a fool because they didn’t phrase it in a way that is pleasing to whatever social sensibilities your clique favours.

I mean, I do appreciate his argument, as it has been a very common trend for tech firms to say one thing while doing the exact opposite.

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes up 5% of the universe. There was just one problem—they had no idea where most of it was.

For anyone like me who’s brain went immediately to dark matter after reading the headline, it’s related but not the dark matter itself.

You. Tonight.

All media consumed supplants the ordinary brain function.

We must play with different crowds.