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The youth that I interact with has grown to be automatically sceptical of such things. There's a generation growing up that doesn't take anything at face value
by Tade0 6y ago
The youth that I interact with has grown to be automatically sceptical of such things.
There's a generation growing up that doesn't take anything at face value. I wonder what the second order effects of this will be?
- IWorkAtBigCo 6y agoManagement is getting harder. I have a generation of developers that won't believe anything we tell them.
- EE84M3i 6y agoWhat sort of things do they not believe?
- JoelMcCracken 6y agoI mean, how often are you telling them the real, true, unadulterated truth? How often do you even know that truth yourself? Folks in management routinely filter messages. What surprises me more is that you are aware that your developers don't believe you.
- friendlybus 6y agoKnowledge is being abused en masse to win arguments and drive action. We are beginning to need a source for sacred, clean and trustworthy knowledge again. It has to be edited by paid employees, legally sound and maintained. wikipedia doesnt cut it. People are actively darkening their own worldviews by arguing themselves out of good knowledge and swimming into fake news for the thrill of victory. Heady aggression is killing our ability to hold rational positions, when they start misquoting fifteen studies and claiming the 'truth' is whatever they want to know.
- ArekDymalski 6y agoI think that one of the long-term effects will be some kind of extreme localism/tribalism. People will trust only the information from their own bubble. And that will inlfuence how do they vote, what do they buy etc. I think we are already seeing it, especailly in the politics - in so many countries the voters have turned towards nationalism.
- remir 6y agoThis is a generation that is being bombarded with information of various forms and they understand that most of it is pure garbage/noise. I guess they're adapting by having more discernement.
- blondin 6y ago> There's a generation growing up that doesn't take anything at face value. it's more like they pick what to take at face value...
- duxup 6y ago>There's a generation growing up that doesn't take anything at face value. I wish, my son came to me recently to tell me about how he is gonna get free robux on Roblox because someone on Roblox told him to do it. Like in every other way I watch him and he's safe and smart but the moment humans hear a thing they want to be true ... out the window goes good choices. There were a series of stories about how "this generation can spot fake news better than the last" that seemed encouraging ... but if you looked closer, the "this generation" was still really bad at it ...
- CraneWorm 6y ago> my son came to me recently to tell me about how he is gonna get free robux on Roblox because someone on Roblox told him to do it. He's learning, that's a valuable lesson. I don't believe this event alone supports the conclusion you try to make: > the moment humans hear a thing they want to be true ... out the window goes good choices
- rasz 6y agoFor what its worth getting scammed in video game is a lot better than getting scammed IRL, while you learn the same lesson.
- duxup 6y agoVery true. I can think of much worse things.
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- dhimes 6y agoI think the second-order effects of that will be fantastic. Skepticism and critical thinking are sorely missing today- at least in the US.