You did no fact checking, and I must scream
shkspr.mobi
You did no fact checking, and I must scream
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#2Just yesterday, there was a post that made me angry in the same vein:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609942
Not only was the article slop, but the author kept responding to comments/criticisms with MORE slop. I must scream.
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#3Just yesterday, there was a post that made me angry in the same vein: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609942 Not only was the article slop, but the author kept responding to comments/criticisms with MORE slop. I must scream.
The author of this post reponds like AI
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#5Wait until you realize it’s 100% sloppy rumors.
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#6The average journalist has to churn enough stories that they don't have time to be looking up anything.
There must be a corollary somewhere about how much you should read the average newspaper.
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#7Well fact checking will just slow us down. And it is not like audience will do it themselves. Or even have options...
Still. In many case I think there should be moments where people just stop for moment and do most basic sanity checks.
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#9It is exceptionally rare for a human to care about the epistemological roots of any claim
I would go so far as to say that the median human with a 100IQ doesn’t even understand the concept of what constitutes a “fact” or how you would dicriminate fact from opinion or has even heard the word “epistemology”
Expecting anything close to that in the context of celebrity gossip… well at that point the author needs to manage his own expectations of humanity
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#10> I hope I've demonstrated that it takes almost no effort to perform a basic fact check. It isn't a professional skill.
For myself a quick fact check like this is also low effort. Unlike the author, I recognize this is a professional skill. We are fortunate enough to be incredibly proficient in a large set of skills. Language, literacy, reading quickly, tech skills, research, touch-typing, critical thinking, searching, subject matter expertise, etc. Most people don’t have those skills! For them to do the same fact check it would be an enormous effort, if they could even accomplish it at all. If these skills were common, our society would not be where it is right now.
Imagine a very tall professional basketball player casually performing a slam dunk. Then they tell you it’s super easy and berate you for not being able to dunk.
Us terminally online people who spend all day reading, searching, and writing are mostly interacting with other similar people. I’ve been doing that almost daily for over twenty years. It’s a skill, and it is an incredibly rare skill. This is easy to forget when you mostly interact online only with other people who have a similar level of proficiency.