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People are often taken in by the Big New Thing. That's why I have a default policy of skepticism towards pretty much everything.
by arcanemachiner 3y ago
People are often taken in by the Big New Thing. That's why I have a default policy of skepticism towards pretty much everything.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y ago> That's why I have a default policy of skepticism towards pretty much everything. I’m convinced anyone who doesn’t do this is either too young to know better or too dumb to have been paying attention.
- bufio 3y agoThe Big New Thing at the moment seems to be a moral panic about oxycodone.
- salad-tycoon 3y ago“Covid” or the constant breathless reporting about every possible little thing over 3 years did this to me. Not rehash any of it but now 3 years later people like Zuck coming out and saying things like “Woops maybe we censored the wrong things and promoted also the wrong things. Woopsies.” I thought I was world worn and tough. Then came AI and I was again on the doom and gloom train. Then I had a moment, realized this just the new thing and dropped it down a few degrees. What’s next?