And now instead of Marge, it’s ChatGPT.
It uses megawatts of electricity and is somehow wronger.
You're grammar is the wrongerest.
*grandma
Also you're an asshole for attacking his lineage.
/s
Now instead of your aunt coming at you with misinfo she learned from her aunt, it's your aunt coming at you with misinformation she learned from a russian bot farm.
But at least you can counter it with misinformation from an AI bot :D
I have the opposite problem. My mother doesn't believe anything I tell her and thinks it is misinformation that I've been fed.
Yes and to make it even worse, your aunt back in the day would tell 10 people some BS and maybe 3 would believe her. Not some Russian bot factory spits out BS to 10 million people and a lot more believe it.
Did you spray for Russians under your bed before going to sleep? You really should, and check behind the sofa and in the dryer too. Russians can disguise themselves as Bounce dryer sheets, and the latest Russians can send themselves over Ethernet using the RoE protocol: Russian over Ethernet.
Russia! Quite an imaginary world you live in! Aunts and Russians and bots and misinformation and all these people targeting you! How exciting!
Can I send you my Moral Rearmament and John Birch Society fliers?
I'm oddly honored that I got a 3 paragraph troll with pictures in response to a comment that was barely even about russia.
Glad AI is finally taking us back to an era of disinformation
Back?
If you had a question that nobody could answer, you’d go down to the library, open up a drawer with a bunch of note cards in it, look to see if any of the note cards had a word about a concept you wanted to learn about, hope that the card existed, was in the right place, and listed a book that would actually give you the information you wanted.
Or you wouldn't go through the effort, you'd ask a trusted elder or a friend, they would lie to you, and you'd peddle that misinformation for decades while refusing that you might be wrong. Guess which one was more likely
You'd ask the librarian about where to find books about stuff and get a 3 hour lecture about the Dewey system
And also the books surrounding that book
Always pick a book to the left and one to the right! Is it useful? Likely not, but you’ll never know if you don’t!
My 4th grade science teacher genuinely taught us that "blood is blue before it leaves your body and turns red due to oxidation from contacting the air"
Even as a kid I thought that was stupid. If blood is blue in the body and only turns red when it touches oxygen, then why is it red in the water?
I was told that's only in the movies. In real life it would be blue.
But then again I got a detention for arguing that the moon is visible during the day. The detention was because I pointed out to the window and said look, and she was embarrassed.
The answer is obvious, dissolved oxygen in the water--duh!
That's wild to me cos like... We didn't need internet to tell us this was incorrect.
It's not like it doesn't have some logic to it. Blood is to carries oxygen throughout the body and then cycles back through the lungs to get more oxygen. So when you look at your arms and see the blue veins we just thought that was obviously the deoxygenated blood returning to the heart.
It made basic sense, so no one was running down to the library to check out a medical textbook to disprove it.
Ever see a blood draw? Blood comes out of a vein, into a non-O2 environment.
I think we just don't do as much critical introspection as we like to think. Its easier to imagine maybe there was a tiny amount of O2 or something than that the thing we were taught was entirely false.
You went to a library and read a couple of encyclopedias.
I had a fantastic working class education at the local library and our home encyclopedia. I definitely carry around 40 year old random factoids and such just like everybody else, but I still love researching things to this day.
Whenever I would ask a question I would be told to go look it up. I was never sure if I was surrounded by people who didn't know anything or if they just wanted to get me out of the house by sending me to the library for a few hours.
Not mutually exclusive options fwiw 😅
And there was a friend's older brother or cousin, who said some unbelievable horseshit, you thought was true for many years. And you didn't even ask.
Joe Rogan
Actually fucking Joe Rogan is the perfect analogy, he just has random people on that say some stuff to him and he is like damn that's crazy and doesn't even fact check it, and then what he likes he carries forward with him and what he doesn't like hearing just ignores
This is why encyclopedia salesmen was even a thing.
If you didn't have that, go to a library.
Eventually there was encyclopedia britannica which was basically one of the coolest things you could have for free on your computer in that era.
Now its just some 14 year old from a reddit thread
People don't imagine what it was like then. It was wild. Wild in a sort of you're all alone all the time, except when you physically is hanging out or at home, and no one knows what's going on. At all. Some people have theories but they are insane. School teaches you things that are compley useless for living right now.
Develop extreme philosophy that resembles Stoicism, but is actually a really disfunctional version of it, apparently.
red blood is a myth. all the homies have neon purple blood
I remember looking up "dirty" words in the dictionary as a real young one with a gaggle of friends
Thank all the medical and educational texts that chose blue to identify veins returning to the heart with a blue color and arteries away from the heart as red. A simple color choice to differentiate and somehow someone decided that this was the color of blood.
It doesn't help that some blood vessels close enough to the surface of the skin can appear blue.
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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