marmadukester39

Maybe social media is Fermi’s great filter.

Its not the free speech. Its the free reach that creates the issue.

This is the case if the participants are well informed. If they are not, there is no reason to believe they will interrupt themselves.

Or it isn’t, because “discovered” doesn’t apply to most participants, who are only exposed to a narrative and likely never see followup.

What does this have to do with wokeism?

The jobs pay virtually nothing. This is the natural result of sucking all the revenue out of the fourth estate.

They are anti vaxxers.

Or, more likely, simply die, and take fair local government with it.

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Apathy, not wrong opinions, is the key outcome of propagandistic misinformation.

As usual, the solution proposed by those indicting any effort to squash misinformation is allowing anyone, regardless of expertise, to have their opinion receive equal weight on the world stage. We’ve seen just the beginning of where that gets us. There will never be a world where all published claims will be true and all false claims correctly identified, but the solution is not to open the algorithmic gates wide to those who most want to debase the idea of truth in service of factual relativism. Freedom of speech =/ freedom of reach. Expertise, and a history of truth, has to matter to how content is algorithmically distributed.

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The tipping points are real, cataclysmic and not mentioned here. Read about the clathrate gun and the methane coming out of the tundra, never mind the huge fires in the boreal forests this year. The IPCC estimates are famously conservative and the trend figures all indicate the most aggressive scenarios or worse are likely. Anyone who suggests the world will end in 20 years is wrong, but the impacts will be massive on longer timescales. Minimizing the risks in this way is so deeply frightening.

Except that suicide burdens everyone around a person terribly.

This discounts the critical role of local news in informing citizens about the performance of and candidates for local government, as well as the investigative role. If the above is all we have in most municipalities, America will likely become a high corruption country.

All the research on set and setting disagrees with you.

This worldview you are trapped in will damage you in exactly the ways enumerated above. I hope that you find a new story to live in.

I’m not so sure it’s a bad idea to listen to first person accounts from underindexed groups. For one, it may help surface new metrics to readjust with; for another, it may still help to get a sampling of “is this helping or hurting in your opinion” and watch how it trends over time.

Or, alternatively, everything is conscious.

So you want uncertified doctors, unvetted medications and health insurers to be able to do whatever they want to their captive customers. Got it.

Wonder if any of that sparked biodiversity was due to panspermia

We are all in the same boat. If Brasil decides to smash holes in their side too, we all drown.

Who says any human should “own” a rainforest?

Awesome. Good for her.

I think the correct solution here has got to be a combination of shifting to reuse of materials, not recycling (think standard size containers) and engineering of bacteria/organisms that can break down existing plastics, even in the deep ocean, perhaps in the stomachs of krill, minnows or other tiny foragers. Nothing else will get it all, the scale of the problem is just too diffuse.

I wish I had a tricorder to check my food for this stuff.

I did - it was called Uncoverage. Happy to talk over what we learned. Also see Beacon, another failed project. Civil is not that far off from what you describe with their newsroom concept today, but they have some blockchain baggage. I think the other platforms may have been ahead of their time. I think it needs a pretty significant awareness campaign about the larger problem to work, as the value proposition is difficult for most people to grok without an understanding of the industry situation.

I tried building a version of this in 2015 called Uncoverage. Beacon did too. Not enough people cared enough to support individual journalists. real stories take too long to write, all journalists need editors, and the value prop feels unfamiliar and seems thin for subscribers. Some are trying now on Patreon.

I agree. The challenge for me has been that in practicing gratitude I find myself fearing the loss of the things for which I am grateful even more.

And actually c02 concentration has a measurable effect on intelligence.