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The web is useless without basic priors.
by xrisk 6y ago
The web is useless without basic priors.
- mhh__ 6y agoSo is a library, a hospital etc.
- bilbo0s 6y agoSure, but there are safeguards against crack pot theories being employed in a hospital. To make that analogy work, you would have to compare building out access to the web to building out access to public healing centers that don't require the use of clean water, nor the sterilization of instruments, nor doctors and nurses with any medical training. All while encouraging the provision wildly unproven treatments.
- mhh__ 6y agoThere are also safeguards against writing crackpot material on Wikipedia. Medical malpractice happens all the time, the comparison isn't invalid. The difference is the cost to the user, i.e. building yourself an echo chamber is free whereas even a suspiciously cheap (say) plastic surgeon is not. This argument works on multiple levels, the internet has crackpots on it but it also has easily indexable alternatives who are only n degrees away from offline authority figures. The issue is more to do with psychology than the internet's intrinsic (sociological) properties.