> Here's a hot take: you shouldn't be trusting intenet comments written by humans anyway. I remember an old New Yorker cartoon from the 90s that says 'On the i

> Here's a hot take: you shouldn't be trusting intenet comments written by humans anyway. I remember an old New Yorker cartoon from the 90s that says 'On the internet, no one knows you're a dog'. Lying has been a fundamental feature of the medium since the beginning. Most of the history of the internet pre-smartphone is people trying to figure out how to combat trolls and spammers. It appears that we are having to learn the same lessons all over again. There seems to be a kind of collective amnesia about the fact that the majority of content on the internet is written by people that are trying to sell you something, trying to get your attention for their own amusement, or are batshit insane. Frequently it's more than one of these things.