Throughout human history, there’s always been a lack of information. Then, somewhere around 2005, there was this brief moment where we had the perfect amount - and ever since, it’s been far too much.
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I miss the pre-"centralized Big Tech" Internet so much.
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Yes you'll cope better with technology you grew up with, but technology is also an exponential cure.
For about 5500 years a guy on a horse was the fastest messaging system, then we went from beeps through a cable to video calls within 200 years. -
Best comment ever.
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This is the exact reason using Google to look anything up anymore is insanely more difficult if you don't have the skills to parse through all the different waves of information. No matter what side of the argument you're on Google will guide you into being "right"
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The iPhone came out in 2007. That was the year the worm turned, imo.
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This should be a shower thought
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At some point there was a giant drop in the information-to-bullshit ratio.
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You can turn it off, at least.
I don't use FB, Twitter, TikTok, etc. I use federated social media but federated social media is moderated, has no algorithm, and no ads, so it's a very different experience.
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We got the meteoric rise of Obama, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street from the democratization of information.
It was devastating to the old guard. But then they realized they could use the same tools we'd used to spread information to spread disinformation. Then when people called them on their bullshit, the regular propaganda stopped being the goal.
No longer was the purpose to make us believe what they had to say. It was too make us not believe anything at all. They flooded the world with so much bullshit that nothing seems true anymore, and in the confusion they're openly enacting fascist policies while pretending the news is fake.
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I recently found out I'm about as old as Java and I still haven't decided if that sounds worse for me or for Java.
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I recently found out I'm about as old as Java and I still haven't decided if that sounds worse for me or for Java.
........wait, when did Java get invented?
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........wait, when did Java get invented?
First public beta/alpha release in 1995
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Infinite amounts of information is fine. As long as it's not about the actions of people.
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First public beta/alpha release in 1995
Oh, I'm way older than that. I was born 2 weeks after yhe whole earth died, because the russians almost atomic bombed us on a false alarm. Until one man refused to sign off on the bombing of America.
Which, based on that description, doesn't ACTUALLY narrow down the decade. Which is kind of scary that the earth almost ended.....more than once.....from the same thing. I mean it was twice that it happened, in two different decades, but still though......maybe atomic weapons are a bad idea in the hands of russia....
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Youtube was founded?
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We have a deluge of data - we have very little information.
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Words are made up and we actively change and redefine them when we use them based on context.
I get the sense that you were trying to correct the OP, but really OP is just defining "information" the way you're defining "data"
The concept being conveyed is the same.
We had very little of it, and had to put in a ton if effort to seek it out, but now it's thrown in our faces nearly all the time with the litteral flick of a finger. Neither of these situations seem optimal, but whatever the optimal situation is, we must have experienced it at some point because the transition didnt happen instantaneously
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We got the meteoric rise of Obama, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street from the democratization of information.
It was devastating to the old guard. But then they realized they could use the same tools we'd used to spread information to spread disinformation. Then when people called them on their bullshit, the regular propaganda stopped being the goal.
No longer was the purpose to make us believe what they had to say. It was too make us not believe anything at all. They flooded the world with so much bullshit that nothing seems true anymore, and in the confusion they're openly enacting fascist policies while pretending the news is fake.
HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. -Wikipedia
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Words are made up and we actively change and redefine them when we use them based on context.
I get the sense that you were trying to correct the OP, but really OP is just defining "information" the way you're defining "data"
The concept being conveyed is the same.
We had very little of it, and had to put in a ton if effort to seek it out, but now it's thrown in our faces nearly all the time with the litteral flick of a finger. Neither of these situations seem optimal, but whatever the optimal situation is, we must have experienced it at some point because the transition didnt happen instantaneously
I think the way it's used has drastically changed. When someone had a lot of information on hand you would go to the "smart guy/girl" and things would be assessed on a somewhat scientific level. That is unless you are picking the smartest person in the trailer park. But I digress.
Now everyone "thinks" they are smart because they have the information. It's how that smart person filtered through the information and interpreted the information that made them smart.
