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speak with the level of certainty that people believing official sources do
I think this is very related to what I described in #979677 after this:
I also remember that I had a great conversation with someone in PlebLab while eating my sandwich. We were talking about how different bitcoiners really are from "normies."
Bitcoiners are just as fallible as normies. That's for sure.
I miss reading comments from @elvismercury like #414953:
Contrast that with the dominant form of expression today [...] Their reading list is a circle jerk curriculum of warmed-over propaganda. Every so often I wind up on an airplane sitting next to a 'bitcoiner' and my internal voice always says oh shit.
What airplanes does he fly on?
I remember he said he flew a lot of private planes with his boss/company. Maybe they were bitcoin adjacent or in finance?
Certainly a different crowd from the riffraff I sit next to
Wonder where he went off to. I remember he got mad at my ~Animal_World x ~bitcoin_beginners x ~Politics_And_Law x ~BooksAndArticles crosspost and said something about taking a break from SN. Hope my post didn't offend a good stacker to the point of not coming back.
His last comment was “Wtf is wrong with you” to @denlillaapan, so I think you don’t need to worry too much
i would disagree. bitcoiners are our only hope.
Hmm my biggest problem is that all narratives are untrustworthy. Official sources, unofficial sources, journos of both the professional and DIY variety, conspiracy theorists and conspirators alike. I find myself in a constant state of having to make decisions about which parts of any narrative, conspiracy theory or official story, is likely to be sound information and what is not.
Maybe it's just me that is experiencing the signal-to-noise ratio decline this hard. My sources were a lot more reliable 10-15 years ago than they are now, and maybe that's why I feel like everything I read is at least half a lie.
Maybe it's just me that is experiencing the signal-to-noise ratio decline this hard.
It's not just you. I think the problem is that most people don't (viscerally) want truth and the internet provided enough competition among information outlets for that to manifest. Or, abundance generally creates noise.
I think the cost of information production and dissemination has vastly outpaced the cost of information verification. And it's only getting worse.
We're all getting shaken in a bag and I don't know where we'll fall.
I don't know where we'll fall.
I think it's pretty obvious. When everything may be fiction, we do/will choose our preferred fiction. Unless verification catches up, fiction will keep spreading until we are all living in literal video games where every atom/pixel is our preferred fiction.
You don't think people will get accustomed to just accepting a high level of uncertainty?
You don't think people will get accustomed to just accepting a high level of uncertainty?
I think accepting uncertainty means not seeking certainty which means not living an informed life which makes a video game life equal to an unknowable real life hence people will choose a video game life.
I expect many people to choose the video game life, either way.
My sources were a lot more reliable 10-15 years ago than they are now, and maybe that's why I feel like everything I read is at least half a lie.
I think it's partly due to the heavy-handed SEO and search engines... before, you'd go online to search for something and it was much more relaxed, the same with YouTube... now you search for something and your search engine bombards you with everything but what you're looking for... all manipulated to get you to those sites. You'll see, information is much harder to find, in addition to censorship, of course. And now, with sites creating content using AI, it's even worse.
Interesting....did you have access to that or what?
Hahaha... I understand... hahaha
https://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html <-- this breach of stratfor has a lot of data about how such companies operate. They're complete a-holes with no respect for anything, and they infiltrate and bribe what they can, but, if you pay companies like these, you can get pretty high quality intelligence for a corporate/civilian.
Wow... a lot of info there... imagine how much info META or Twitter has.
if it's not posted on SN, don't need to read it.
at this point, if a writer doesn't know how to use sats to post on stacker news, that writer is not well informed enough to be worth your time.
you can't focus on everything. just focus on the most important.
context?
I used to be very inclined to believe in conspiracy theories and all that kind of stuff... but lately I've even developed a real aversion to it all.
I was very much a believer in it when I was in college; I think at that age you question everything.
Gawd do I hate unthoughtful conspiracy theorists that speak with the level of certainty that people believing official sources do. The virtue of conspiracy theories is doubt and when you're certain of a conspiracy, especially because a fucking token predictor confirmed your beliefs, you are back to being retarded.