Okay so you're driving to your parent's house and open up Google Maps for directions, are you going to start doubting its directions? If it says something tota

Okay so you're driving to your parent's house and open up Google Maps for directions, are you going to start doubting its directions? If it says something totally ridiculous, of course! The existence of services that provide information is not an excuse to ignore individual logic and reasoning. You see now how this could suddenly fuck up your understanding of things and propagate down in your knowledgebase to then start affecting your decision framework? If I Googled for my symptoms, and came across a page that said I have "Googleitis", and all of the information around that was about "Google's April Fool's Day Googleitis Prank" then I'm not sure it would. My niece could easily take from this that human beings have the technology to pull off something like this in the way google is showing and make wild and inaccurate extrapolations that will confuse her. Information is messy, people are fallible, confusion isn't harmful.