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And most people "choose" which of the two they will use depending on which best serves them under the given circumstances.

It doesn't surprise me that someone who has this thinking style is also able to outperform those who do not in certain domains.

I'd think it's more likely that people choose homeschooling because of the lack of philosophy in mainstream curriculum.

Accuracy is not knowably possible in some domains though, which should be noted because it is a very big problem.

> How can people not see all the blatant lie from Trump and his bootlickers?

Not sure if you are serious, but the problem on both sides of the disagreement is caused by the illusory nature of consciousness, and is exacerbated the fact that our culture does not study that phenomenon despite how incredibly important it is.

This is what people should be arguing over rather than yet another consequence of it.


Not a popular topic in certain contexts, apologies.

An interesting difference between physics and metaphysics is that in physics people tend to think fact checking their claims is important.

Until recently, both meta and physics thought that fact-checking claims was important.

I think physics folks are still mostly top notch when it comes to physics, but for metaphysics they fail like everyone else of course.

Aha sorry, it was a play on words. "Meta" the company just fired their fact-checking team, hence the tongue-in-cheek comment

Do you think forums like the one you are on right now do not?

We're the product of all the information we consume, but forums like HN aren't custom-tailoring what I'm shown to maximize engagement from me.

Perhaps, but the question was regarding whether this forum brainwashes people.

Do you think there might be some variation in the degree of negative effects a forum like Hacker News has compared to TikTok/YT shorts?

I do, but this is not contrary to my point.

No, because reading is more healthy than mindlessly watching short videos. There is only so much content on the front page, it's not a slot machine you can pull for hours like tiktok.

Give it a few months until somebody rigs an open-source video generation model to generate a "Short" from any frontpage article, and then several "reaction videos" based on the top comments... and maybe a frontend UI that turns the frontpage into an infinite scroll of those Shorts... and bam, HackerReels will be born

Do you truly believe zero brainwashing takes place here?

Out of curiosity, how deeply have you considered the question? And, might that depth not be a function of the norms in the forum?


There's a podcast named "??? Tapes" (can't remember the ??? part) on the matter that seems to be blowing a lot of people's minds, some of whom were formerly very skeptical.

A good question.

The whole domain of interpersonal relations at scale is vastly understudied.


Aggressive first mover abuse of the truth is fine, but in defense one must be polite.

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