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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More like, there was a brief window when the growth in accessibility of information outpaced the growth in our ability to abuse it.
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One time I fell asleep on the front lawn.
Yours or someone else’s?
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Kojima warned us about this.
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Do we need like a philosophical thoughts community? Shower thoughts to me are more like "if you have a PhD all meetings you go to are doctors meetings."
Meanwhile, on Lemmy its like "The undulating nature of the universe can be predetermined based on a set of twelve isotopic values."
Counterpoint: "Any thought you have in the shower is a shower thought"
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I personally think that moment was in 1993, when the Encarta CD was released.
It had a huge amount of information, but it didn't feel overwhelming.
The internet also didn't feel overwhelming.
In 2005, I think the internet already felt overwhelming.
But I guess if you weren't the nerdy type crawling the web, then social media and smartphones were the game changer and I would put the date closer to 2010.
absolutely, the Iphone was the game changer.
the internet is as useful as it's ever been it just stopped being a physical place you go, the computer, to something you carry with you everywhere as another layer of reality.
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Governments used to want to control the narrative, now they’ll spill out so many narratives that people are overloaded on trying to figure out what is actually true. This has been going into overdrive with machine learning improvements and it’s probably just picking up traction.
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I personally think that moment was in 1993, when the Encarta CD was released.
It had a huge amount of information, but it didn't feel overwhelming.
The internet also didn't feel overwhelming.
In 2005, I think the internet already felt overwhelming.
But I guess if you weren't the nerdy type crawling the web, then social media and smartphones were the game changer and I would put the date closer to 2010.
I miss the pre social media internet so goddamn much
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Governments used to want to control the narrative, now they’ll spill out so many narratives that people are overloaded on trying to figure out what is actually true. This has been going into overdrive with machine learning improvements and it’s probably just picking up traction.
Flooding the zone with shit
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I miss the pre social media internet so goddamn much
Social media has existed since BBS. What changed is there’s suddenly big money in it, and virtually no barrier to entry.
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absolutely, the Iphone was the game changer.
the internet is as useful as it's ever been it just stopped being a physical place you go, the computer, to something you carry with you everywhere as another layer of reality.
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Counterpoint: "Any thought you have in the shower is a shower thought"
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Social media has existed since BBS. What changed is there’s suddenly big money in it, and virtually no barrier to entry.
I miss the pre-"centralized Big Tech" Internet so much.
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I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams
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. -
The internet has the right amount of information if you can just moderate yourself. But I'm also the kind of guy that goes out for a beer or two and arrives home with no clothes on.
Best comment ever.
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Governments used to want to control the narrative, now they’ll spill out so many narratives that people are overloaded on trying to figure out what is actually true. This has been going into overdrive with machine learning improvements and it’s probably just picking up traction.
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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Do we need like a philosophical thoughts community? Shower thoughts to me are more like "if you have a PhD all meetings you go to are doctors meetings."
Meanwhile, on Lemmy its like "The undulating nature of the universe can be predetermined based on a set of twelve isotopic values."
This should be a shower thought
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At some point there was a giant drop in the information-to-bullshit ratio.
