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What we need is to build more refined and stronger intuition about Epistemology, and maybe also learn to prioritize minding our own business more than distant/u

• jaqalopes 4y ago
  Part of the solution is certainly better mental habits by information consumers, but it's not fair to expect normal people who are just trying to go about their business to bear all the costs of trying to stoically ignore this mental pollution—and it is pollution. It sucks that the business models of many websites apparently depend on bombarding people with 90% crap that you need to fight through to get to the 10% you want, and we ought to demand a better solution than "just suck it up."
  • stephc_int13 4y ago
    This is not completely new, we had tons of junk ads in mail and TV. Humans are not too bad at learning to tune out the noise, it takes some time to adapt. I've seen quite a few young people who simply decided to not play the game, they stay out of Tiktok/insta, they read books, they don't care about their phones... At some point I believe that Smartphones are going to not be much more exciting than TVs.
• mistermann 4y ago
  > and maybe also learn to prioritize minding our own business more than distant/unverifiable/likely distorted events. This has substantial epistemic issues, particularly if you include complex causality (since it is often not possible to accurately derive what "one's business" is, what "is" or is not verifiable in fact, or what is "likely"... All of that is driven by sub-perceptual, culturally conditioned heuristics). Epistemology is extremely counterintuitive.