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Internet was a mistake. It gave all the anti science people and crackpots a platform for their ideas.
Making it easy was the mistake, the internet was great when knowing what tcp/ip actually is was a barrier to entry.
Gatekeeping isn't a dirty word.
This also exposed just how many stupid people are out there. We all assumed that making infinite knowledge available would be the rising tide which lifts all boats; instead, the rising tide is a tsunami of idiocy and willful ignorance.
I know that I was completely wrong in this regard. You know, like how Mark Twain said something like travel was anathema to bigotry.
So, I thought that the reason bigotry existed was that people are afraid of the unknown, so if you forced people together, they'd have to realize that we're all the same.
But now I realize that the main reason bigotry exists is that people are staying in contact with other bigots. The part about meeting diverse people is important, but far less important than pulling people out of their comfort zone to combat bigotry. So, the internet amplifies bigotry, because they'll never be out-of-contact with their local bigots, even if they travel away from them.
Can we please just make network that has a higher barrier to entry than spending 1000 dollars on an iPhone but through a 4 year loans?
And before some c suite fuck head reads this, I don't mean cost more money. I mean cost just a tiny bit more intellectually.
Are we not already on such a network? There are some here that moan about the Fediverse being too hard of a concept for the laymen to wrap their heads around. I do not disagree with them, but I like to see it as a moron filter that doesn't seem to exist on most other places on the internet.
I mean, I just went to a site and made an account.
Facebook has the same barriers in place, and ironically enough, I can view our content without an account and not theirs.
I mean, a lotta fucking Nazis knew what TCP/IP was back in the 80s, too.
this would would only help our sanity, the stupid people would still be stupid, just not as loudly
Them being stupid, loudly, together, is making all of them stupider as individuals, too.
The ad populum fallacy on full display.
I don't know, man. I saw a Facebook poll saying ad populum isn't a thing.
In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.
I always say: "The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn't have been for everyone ."
Tbf, the same was said about the printing press back then
Only a rich crackpot could distribute pamphlets claiming colloidal silver cures cancer, and then they'd still only reach people in walking distance.
Now, any moron can reach literally the entire world at no cost or effort.
Also, literacy itself was gatekept back then. The stupid people we're referring to wouldn't even have been able to read it.
Carving symbols on stone tablets was a mistake
Our species developing speech was a mistake
Oop oop hrk! >=[
Relevant username
Climbing down from the trees was the begining of the end.
Its not anti science to not blindly trust science. Its actual science to try and verify observations. Sure, most people dont have those skills to properly know what they are observing, but I think its good if people try to learn.
I learned tons of stuff about the common pitfalls about measuring the curvature of the earth by looking at flat earth arguments and seeing what science says about them.
Today you can throw those arguments into chat gpt and get a decent summary of how anything actual works.
Using lasers to track earth curvature across a big lake for example, absolutely fascinating to see why it doesnt work as you may expect.
Why would it not work as I expect? I'm expecting some beam decoherence, and possible deflecting due to temperature differences over a cold lake.
Yeah those things.
My brother is a crank because ChatGPT enables him.
Some people get shot because guns were invented.
I’m still convinced flat earthers are an internet hoax/troll.
I've seen a super genius flying with a bubble level.