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>What does Internet do to curiosity? Or what happens when curiosity is quenched withing seconds of being aroused? For a substantial part of the population, thi

by igk 9y ago

>What does Internet do to curiosity? Or what happens when curiosity is quenched withing seconds of being aroused? For a substantial part of the population, this happens: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wiki-hole http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wiki-hole If you have ready access to information, you hunger for more, because after you understand one concept or fact, you NOTICE all the other things that depend on that, be they new things building on top or inconsistencies in other fields conflicting with your new knowledge

athenot 9y ago
And for the parody version of that, The Onion has put together this site. :) http://www.clickhole.com http://www.clickhole.com
coldtea 9y ago
>For a substantial part of the population, this happens: For an even more substantial part of the population, the "I'll pretend like I know things just because I can look them up in wikipedia or some such source" happens.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Which is great! The brain becomes relegated to the role of a cache instead of working as the whole of an individual's knowledge.
  - qb45 9y ago
    It's great to know what knowledge exists and where. It's less great to think that you know something just because you could swear you have read it on the Internet once, which I think is what GP meant. It's not unusual to see people post bullshit because they think they understand something they've read on Wikipedia or a random blog or forum but actually they know shit about it.
  - RandomOpinion 9y ago
    > The brain becomes relegated to the role of a cache instead of working as the whole of an individual's knowledge. I have a pile of physics textbooks sitting nearby but that doesn't make me a qualified physicist. Availability of knowledge isn't worth a thing if it's never been integrated into your mind.
L_226 9y ago
I got bored a few weeks ago and made (a very basic!) something[1] to turn the wikihole into a big single article. [1] - https://wikiflat.herokuapp.com/about https://wikiflat.herokuapp.com/about

by igk 9y ago

athenot 9y ago

And for the parody version of that, The Onion has put together this site. :) http://www.clickhole.com http://www.clickhole.com

coldtea 9y ago

>For a substantial part of the population, this happens: For an even more substantial part of the population, the "I'll pretend like I know things just because I can look them up in wikipedia or some such source" happens.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
Which is great! The brain becomes relegated to the role of a cache instead of working as the whole of an individual's knowledge.
- qb45 9y ago
  It's great to know what knowledge exists and where. It's less great to think that you know something just because you could swear you have read it on the Internet once, which I think is what GP meant. It's not unusual to see people post bullshit because they think they understand something they've read on Wikipedia or a random blog or forum but actually they know shit about it.
- RandomOpinion 9y ago
  > The brain becomes relegated to the role of a cache instead of working as the whole of an individual's knowledge. I have a pile of physics textbooks sitting nearby but that doesn't make me a qualified physicist. Availability of knowledge isn't worth a thing if it's never been integrated into your mind.

L_226 9y ago

I got bored a few weeks ago and made (a very basic!) something[1] to turn the wikihole into a big single article. [1] - https://wikiflat.herokuapp.com/about https://wikiflat.herokuapp.com/about