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This is a good take. Skepticism is one of the most important aspects of thinking critically, and building a library of skeptical techniques so as to be able to
by core-questions 6y ago
This is a good take. Skepticism is one of the most important aspects of thinking critically, and building a library of skeptical techniques so as to be able to sniff out things that aren't true is crucial to being able to navigate through a sea of information.
It's sort of like the Godel incompleteness theorem of social networking: you can either be incomplete or inconsistent; any system which tries to be perfectly consistent will find itself excluding massive amounts of potential dialogue. This in turn will result in a user exodus.
- nobody9999 6y ago>This in turn will result in a user exodus. You say that like it's a bad thing.
- core-questions 6y agoSorry, let me be clear, it's absolutely a good thing, and I exodized (if that's a word) quite some time ago. It doesn't seem to be happening fast enough, which I will attribute to a lack of a clear, decentralized but dead simple alternative. Look at how quickly something like BitTorrent was adopted back in the day.... it's an esoteric and difficult to understand thing under the surface, until clients and sites came along that made it super simple. Maybe Urbit will evolve into this, maybe Mastodon, we'll see.