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[–]InigoEnFuego[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I fucking hope you're right. I just wonder how we will ever get back to sense when we live in the era of social media. It's a very different world than humanity has ever seen before and if we can't learn to debate and grow as rational people in the world of social media then we're just bound to continue fracturing until everyone just hates one another. I have to wonder if social media is just humanity sped up and we're just seeing the changes happen 10 times faster than before or if it's genuinely rotting peoples abilities to ever think rationally again.

[–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm going to have to go with the "humanity sped up" version. This is also, in my opinion, reason #1001 why intelligence-based eugenics is bullshit. More intelligence does not mean better, if anything it means faster. So we make mistakes at a faster rate too. Social media is a technology and a tool, and like any tool, it propagates mistakes as quickly as it propagates useful work. In this case, mistakes being misinformation and "useful work" being truth spreading. The dilemma universal to the human timeline is deciding how to ethically use the tools that are available in our time. Making a bunch of new tools does not make that responsibility/need go away.

Just my 2 cents. Sort of a tangent, though.