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[–]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.