Knowledge is... power?
Knowledge is... power?
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"What if they misinterpret our fanfictions as the literal word of some god and start killing and enslaving each other over it?"
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Skip forward 1000 years to people worshipping Harry Potter and praying for him to save them from the dark lord
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OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR, POTTER. SAVE US FROM THE MUGGLES AND HE WHO SHAN'T BE NAMED.
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When I was a teenager, an older friend told me how he learned in college history how the first Emperor of China wrote the language, made all these scientific discoveries, etc, etc. And I, knowing fuck all about Chinese history, was like 'you mean he killed all the historians and advisors, then burned all the libraries, so he could take credit, right?' My friend is like 'uhhh.....'
Yeah, so turns out that's pretty much how more recent readings of it say it went down.
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It's likely that people were selectively documenting information since the beginning of time.
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Yes, but not necessarily maliciously. No one person, no matter how good they are at being objective, can possibly see and hear and experience everything. Most of what historians wrote down would have been second or third hand information at best.
I usually assume that there's a lot of telephone-game style information passing built into any written record.
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No one person, no matter how good they are at being objective, can possibly see and hear and experience everything.
Except Patrick Stewart.
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Thatโs what basically all of history has been, honestly. Our problem (or salvation, depending on how you look at it) will be that everyoneโs random opinion is archived and will be viewable by our descendants. Previous generations had the advantage that their most asinine, pigheaded, and ludicrous ideas were filtered by history, since the more serious minds didnโt record in documents how a sizable portion of us were the absolute worst.
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"We would have to develop some rigorous process to sort real facts a well as cause effect relationships to a precise degree of statistical certainty. We could base this process around experimentation with highly limited variables and/or large sample sizes, with rules and regulations on how data is recorded and edited, which would then be vetted by other peers of the field and industry with high scrutiny to filter out all but the best theories."
"What zero ungabunga does to a mofo."
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People were selectively choosing facts to mold their own realities before writing existed. The volume of information didn't make that any worse.
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Of course it made it better! Actually it is not the volume, but ability to share and the bad incentives for the companies to increase โscreen timeโ of the users of social networks.
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This is right below your post
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ea0e5ae9-9538-4416-bcdb-d98704945f57.jpeg
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The earth is doughnut shaped and big ball doesnt want you to know about it.
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France isโฆ bacon?
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It's funny cuz that's how creatures brains already operate. Think of how many stimuli you're exposed to but ignoring right now. Right this very second. Like that thing over there. Yeah, that! You totally had full view of it yet you had limited awareness or perception of it! Just like the excess facts. We're built for filtering no matter what.
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I think I'm broken because I have counted all the little popcorn studs of my ceiling multiple times and spend time focused on many other stupidly mundane piles of "chaos."
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Humans have always been able to do that, even without written language.
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with all thatโs going on in the world these days I think webcomics are still the worst thing plaguing humanity.
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It's weird because this one doesn't even have a joke. It's just stating a bad thing. You could literally sub in any current concern:
"We should extract oil to create motor vehicles"
"What if those motor vehicles create pollution?"
"Shut up".
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I thought the joke was him being selective by saying shut up
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Say that again after reading Scoob & Shag.
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