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People should be suspicious of statements regardless of tone. Conmen, hackers, cult members, job applicants, and AIs are all trying to trick people who only li
by ultra_nick 2y ago
People should be suspicious of statements regardless of tone. Conmen, hackers, cult members, job applicants, and AIs are all trying to trick people who only listen to tone.
- caseyy 2y agoIt takes a lot of cognitive work to doubt and analyze everything. It's not really feasible, is it?
- n4r9 2y agoAs with many things, it becomes easier with practise. Also, you can pace accordingly: do I quickly read 10 articles today, or pick 2 and peruse them in depth?
- ilc 2y agoReview enough code, and even 2 + 2 can look sus. Where's the operator overload? ;)
- tinyhitman 2y agoIn the garbage language that we dont use anymore. Right? Right!? :)
- kevindamm 2y agowell yeah but there's that legacy system, the replacement isn't ready for GA yet so...
- smitty1e 2y agoUnfortunately, due to budget cuts, we could not afford to vanquish all of the antiques in the architecture. We do have an infinite spell of Ben Gay, however....
- smitty1e 2y agos/spell/supply/
- account42 2y agoYou think 2.add(2) is more trustworthy?
- autoexec 2y agoIt's also not really necessary a lot of the time. If some random person online confidently says that the newest tesla uses an engine which contains ball bearings made in Indonesia by child slaves, I don't have to spend the time to doubt and analyze that because it doesn't impact me personally. I'd only ever need to take the time to double check that if I were going to buy a tesla or before I went and spread that information around as if it were fact. How true or false it is doesn't affect my life in any way. It can just be something a random person said online and I can treat it as such. Whenever you see information that sounds like it could be extremely important to you and your situation (and when being wrong could really hurt you) then no matter how authoritatively the information was delivered that's really when you should invest the time to verify it. Much of the time that investment is just a quick internet search anyway.
- Bjartr 2y agoSo safe the effort for the things that actually matter in your life.