You shouldn’t think of people (aka internet users) as an undifferentiated mass. There are multiple competitions on the ’net for different population segments. For example, SSC isn’t really competing with the see-Kylie-Jenner-naked people. There isn’t going to be one single equilibrium.
Like the entire internet is suffering a sort of eternal september
Oh, dear. I hate to break it to you, but...
how do we fundamentally confirm that something is true
In the usual way. You imagine people selling bridges didn’t exist before the ’net? What do you think the whole science thing is about? Internet actually makes it a lot easier to check whether something being told to you is a lie.
Yet what I do seem mundane.
Yes, and that’s fine. Information hygiene is mundane, like brushing your teeth—or resisting the urge to burrow into a hospital’s infectious-waste trash pile.
Saving the world from bad information is a… dangerous approach.
You shouldn’t think of people (aka internet users) as an undifferentiated mass. There are multiple competitions on the ’net for different population segments. For example, SSC isn’t really competing with the see-Kylie-Jenner-naked people. There isn’t going to be one single equilibrium.
Oh, dear. I hate to break it to you, but...
In the usual way. You imagine people selling bridges didn’t exist before the ’net? What do you think the whole science thing is about? Internet actually makes it a lot easier to check whether something being told to you is a lie.
Yes, and that’s fine. Information hygiene is mundane, like brushing your teeth—or resisting the urge to burrow into a hospital’s infectious-waste trash pile.
Saving the world from bad information is a… dangerous approach.