I’ve been noticing a wild pattern lately, I couldn’t tell if it’s either a ragebait or not but every single one of them seems quite confident with their wrong answer… Well most of the time they’re likely schrodinger asshole.
Some people in most social media (whether it’s tiktok, instagram or youtube) always say the most stupidest thing in a comment section, and most of the time they spread misinformation and believed those misinformation without doing any proper research which made me concerned.
One time someone argued with me that intel management engine on 2008-2010 chipset has a “crazy spyware backdoor” and I explained to them that most 2008-2010 chipset lack network stacking in order to be a proper backdoor and since those older chipset lack network stacking physically and needed vPro edition of the chip for network stacking.
I did some research more on why they believed that information and I found a popular tiktok video that went across my feed a few months ago which contained misinformation and did not clarify the vPro part.
Someone even admitted in my comment section that they’re doing research on the tiktok search bar… tiktok search engine isn’t even reliable for researching!
I seriously think I should take a break from social media, because how come these type of people even exist without any instinct of researching properly? Have you encountered people like this too? Please tell me I’m not the only one whose encountering these type of people.
Because you and you alone are an OMEGA brained GENIUS who is never wrong.
‘Nowadays’? That’s the kind of conversation my dad and his brothers would have at family get-togethers back in the 80s. It hasn’t gotten worse, it’s just gotten more in-your-face.
It only seems that way because the stupidest people are the loudest and spend the most time on social media.
Lemmy has spoken.
It’s okay to be stupid, at times, on a “I just don’t know” level. Nobody knows everything, not even experts.
It’s just not okay to pretend that you’re smart and know everything while demonstrating just how stupid you are. You’re only truly stupid also, when you don’t question, don’t have a sense of awareness and aren’t curious to know more of something.
That’s exactly what online engagement has largely degraded into. People who think that because they’re louder, that they have more karma points, that they brown-nose to mods/admins make them smart and therefore not stupid. It just turns you into a stupid asshole who has a fragile ego.
People online say the most disappointing things. What’s worse is that they influence hundreds of people with each stupid comment.
People are inherently stupid. It is an essential part of our species for a reason that’s clever by no merit of our own. That reason is because fitting into social structure takes precedent over everything else. Without it being the highest priority, we are exiled from the goup which historically has spelled death and the end of our family line.
Above all we are a social animal. Of all traits, it is the entirety of our strength and survivability as a species. We believe what we are told to believe by people we believe. That’s it. The adaptability of our world modeling systems is remarkable and the vast influx of environmental data is ambiguous at best.
From the moment you are pooped out onto the earth to the moment you sink into its chilly clutches, all of us, from the beginning of humankind, believe only what our socialization allows us to believe.
Except for the very few things you’ve objectively tested with rigor, everything you think you know falls within the category of second hand knowledge by trusting that certain people are telling you the truth.
Conversely, logical deduction, mathematics, statistics, etc., etc., are not natural to our instincts. They’re skills that must be learned.
So just remember that. You, me, and the vast sea of morons that cover this planet are inherently built for fucking, hunting for resources, and being an integral part of our in-group way beyond things like understanding long term cause and effect, objective analysis, or anything else that paints a somewhat clearer picture of reality.
They were always stupid, social media made them bold.
There were plenty of stupid people already and then covid arrived and caused brain damage everywhere.
Nowadays compared to when?
https://xkcd.com/202/ was published in 2006, so you must be thinking of much earlier than that…
Because we don’t make it hurt to be willfully ignorant. We need to start kicking the shit out of dangerously stupid people when they start spouting off about subjects they know nothing about. But instead we seem to elect them and invest in their stupid bullshit.
They were always stupid. They are just more able to write out their stupidity.
https://youtube.com/shorts/i4TICZ67Ws4
I like this video from a London historian who goes through what common people knew before compulsory education.
I remember the time where basically every user on the internet was an academic. The net was very different back then. Then came AOL and the eternal September.
People where/are just as stupid. Now they have no shame and lots of platforms to feed their stupidity.
Before you climb on a high horse, we are all stupid in our own way, it’s the ignorance of the stupidity that is the problem. Not knowing that you are stupid is the greatest super power ever
Being aware that one person doesn’t know everything is different than being stupid.
That’s not what they were saying.
They were saying “everyone is stupid” which is reductionist and frankly, stupid.
Everyone can make mistakes, especially when they don’t know everything, but that doesn’t make them stupid.
They were being flippant/hyperbolic about it, using stupid as a synonym for ignorant.
Their point was that not knowing your shortcomings is what truly makes you stupid.
Bad example.
I was there in 2010, and during the Snowden scandal, and I have a laptop running libreboot. We thought back then than the ME could have a backdoor even without vPro, just because if could have undocumented access to the network (it has higher than ring 0 access to the CPU, after all).
“Why are people so ________ these days?” drives me nuts. People have always been that way. If today’s behavior seems new and unique it’s only because it’s being presented through different social norms, fashions, or ways of communicating.
The algorithm extrapolates stupidity.
