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25 years in, how is it possible not to have mastered this like muscle memory? You're supposed to develop skills to quickly assess search results, scan a site fo

25 years in, how is it possible not to have mastered this like muscle memory? You're supposed to develop skills to quickly assess search results, scan a site for trustworthiness, find the info you need on a page through heuristics you've either been building for decades or have developed natively because you were born into a world where it's a primary skill. It's become like breathing, hasn't it? I can't begin to describe how much it slows me down to have to keep typing out my question repeatedly to an AI, only to be robbed of the ability to judge the information in the context of where it came from, and oh yeah, any confidence that it's accurate.

earthboundkid 3y ago
It’s fun to ask ChatGPT CSS questions because you can quickly try them out and see if they work. So far it has a .000 batting average on CSS for me.
antihipocrat 3y ago
Younger people haven't had the same time to build these heuristics. Some of these heuristics you're utilizing may also be referencing what information looked like prior to the influx of blog spam.
- jdsalaro 3y ago
  > Younger people haven't had the same time to build these heuristics. This is a key point, and I don't think the ability to acquire knowledge online is a skill which only young people specifically have failed to acquire. Said ability must be trained on, as with anything, a suitable dataset. This objective cannot be meaningfully achieved if all data sources someone has ever consumed and learned from are TikTok, ragebait, clickbait, affiliate link blogs, email chains, WhatsApp message chains, sensationalist news outlets, etc. This is why people still fall for the Nigerian Prince, Hot MILFs in Your Area, job application with deposit and all the modern variants; not only old people but all types of people. I think some of us nerds have a slight advantage in that we experience the internet early on in a slightly different way: as a parallel to the real world, with friends and foes, with truth and deceit and as a playground to write a game mod or a bot for shit and giggles. We are, due to that I'd pose, much more keen to learn how and be able to effectively navigate it.

earthboundkid 3y ago

It’s fun to ask ChatGPT CSS questions because you can quickly try them out and see if they work. So far it has a .000 batting average on CSS for me.

antihipocrat 3y ago

Younger people haven't had the same time to build these heuristics. Some of these heuristics you're utilizing may also be referencing what information looked like prior to the influx of blog spam.

jdsalaro 3y ago
> Younger people haven't had the same time to build these heuristics. This is a key point, and I don't think the ability to acquire knowledge online is a skill which only young people specifically have failed to acquire. Said ability must be trained on, as with anything, a suitable dataset. This objective cannot be meaningfully achieved if all data sources someone has ever consumed and learned from are TikTok, ragebait, clickbait, affiliate link blogs, email chains, WhatsApp message chains, sensationalist news outlets, etc. This is why people still fall for the Nigerian Prince, Hot MILFs in Your Area, job application with deposit and all the modern variants; not only old people but all types of people. I think some of us nerds have a slight advantage in that we experience the internet early on in a slightly different way: as a parallel to the real world, with friends and foes, with truth and deceit and as a playground to write a game mod or a bot for shit and giggles. We are, due to that I'd pose, much more keen to learn how and be able to effectively navigate it.