Hacker News Reader

and both saw the world through an inherited training/feed bias and censorship, hurray!

Just like they always have. There’s a reason religion is mostly inherited.

Everything a human knows has to be learned

Has there ever been a modern time when this wasn't the case?

I mean: I can only go back so far, but I remember the 1980s well-enough. At that time, most of the new information that came into my brain from outside was sourced from public schools, newspapers, and the evening news on TV.

None of these sources were particularly unfiltered, uncensored, or unbiased. It was always an abbreviated approximation of someone else's idea of the truth.

Even in pre-modern times censorship was the norm. Heck, it wasn’t until the printing press was invented that the powers that be had to start doing it explicitly.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com