Don’t fuck with the hive mind. Many a time I’ve taken a reasonable, well-thought out and even sourced opinion and been downvoted to shit.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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Yeah! Take that with your stupid right wing opinion that's different than what is wanted to be heard!
If your opinion is that certain people should have less rights, you have a retarded opinion.
Whats funny is you just used an abliest slur.
Also, fetus rights are human rights. If you disagree, you have a r-slurred opinion.
As an expert on everything I find the Internet constantly frustrating.
I was blanket banned from supposedly leftist subs for posting in PCM and the_donald - obviously trolling the shit out of them.
Fuck 'em, fuck spez, fuck their power-drunk mods, and fuck their total lack of understanding of what makes their site work, let alone good.
Mods everywhere are cunts. Including Lemmy. I'm sure @[email protected] will agree that he's a cunt.
It's been such a 180°.
I used to use Cunningham's Law to find out expert nuances before a presentation to C-suite execs.
These days I tell people online about the things I'm an expert in and was brought in at ridiculous consulting fees to talk about and get dumb disagreement, especially when it goes against hivemind.
Social media got much worse over the past decade. I've gotten the sense there's a bit of a generational aspect at play as well, in terms of the emboldening to spout BS from ignorance as long as being paid attention to and a thin skin in being debated with.
It's your tone, bro. You can't just keep blaming everyone else for not getting your message across. Doesn't mean you aren't knowledgeable, just that you have poor communication skills
No, it's more confirmation bias and the fact I actively avoid appeals to authority.
I know full well if I pointed out my background in certain situations, I'd get a massive amount of agreement even if what I'm saying is against common narratives.
But the difference I'm commenting on is less about how people perceive what I write about and more the shift in how common it is for people who clearly have no idea what they are talking about to have the confidence and wherewithal to debate a topic entirely out of their element with little more than an appeal to gut feelings.
My favorite is how ignorant people are so certain about some issue that top scientists are unsure about.
If you point out that we don't know whether there's any life in the galaxy except on Earth, folks will say there has to be because look how many other planets there are, or even say you're arrogantly self centered for entertaining the idea that there isn't.
Amen, same with the machine learning haters nowadays, pretending they know exactly how the llms work that not even the scientists working on them understand. And they can extrapolate how useless and bad this technology is
machine learning haters nowadays, pretending they know exactly how the llms work that not even the scientists working on them understand.
I think part of this particular problem stems from experts in the field making pretty wild claims while not still not completely understanding the tech.
Now a lot of this is prompted by market and media interest, but companies like Open AI taking advantage of this interest by making obtuse claims for funding purposes isn't exactly helping.
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Gotta cite your facts when it's about such controversial facts.
In Reddit it doesn't really matter. You can cite the best sources ever, use a pristine logic, and the local irrationals will still find some excuse to believe in whatever.
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