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I know! One day it's going to get so bad people are going to have to deploy critical thinking instead of accepting what they read at face value and suffer the i

I know! One day it's going to get so bad people are going to have to deploy critical thinking instead of accepting what they read at face value and suffer the indignity of having to think for themselves.

gmueckl 6y ago
Critical thinking won't help you when the majority (or all) of your sources are tainted and contradictory. At some point, the actual truth just gets swamped.
- inglor_cz 6y ago
  This. Robots can spout 1000x more content than humans, if not more.
- spion 6y ago
  This is already happening, just with humans networked into social networks that favor quick reshare over deep review
- thelastwave 6y ago
  "the actual truth"
hooande 6y ago
10,000 years of human civilization and this hasn't happened yet, huh? Any day now, I'm sure
emphatizer2000 6y ago
Maybe somebody could create an AI that evaluates the factfulness of articles.
- visarga 6y ago
  This is possible, especially with human in the loop.
- lrossi 6y ago
  Or have the AI generate only fact-based, polite and relevant comments. Related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
realusername 6y ago
I'm going to throw some wild guess here and say that this sudden increase in critical thinking won't happen.
Lewton 6y ago
Will they also learn to avoid magical thinking like "People en masse will all of a sudden develop abilities out of the blue"?
Kuinox 6y ago
Sadly they don't. They start to believe to random things in and reject what they don't like.
_underfl0w_ 6y ago
Maybe that'll also be the Year of the Linux desktop I keep hearing so much about.