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There’s a running joke online that goes something like this —

“Oh! I see we’ve all become experts in superconductors and firestorms now, after being experts in epidemiology and LLM models just a few weeks ago. Impressive!”

The underlying message is that each of us should just “stay in our lane” and only have opinions about our narrow areas of expertise.

The problem with this line of thinking is that many of the most credentialed and esteemed “experts” have utterly failed and betrayed the public trust in recent years, especially since COVID.

Thus, it makes sense to hold more credence in an anon sh*tposter whom you know to be authentic and honest based on his past behavior, than a PhD expert who has perverse fiat incentives pushing him to hold a particular view in order to keep his job, his salary, and his social standing.

In any case, it’s better not to trust anyone blindly, but rather, to verify the truth yourself. #Bitcoin

Moon 2y ago

The issue is have is that the online anon can just as easily be just as full of shit as "the experts," if not more so.

When you have Nigerian teenagers willing to cook fake Facebook profiles for 2-3 before turning them malicious - what do you think states and disinformation agents are out here doing? And how long to do you think they’ve been doing it?

Remember all the doomerist engagement farmer around “imminent food system collapse" and “soccer players everywhere collapsing / aLl hTe VaCciNaTeD aRe dYiNg!!!” in 2021 and 2022…

There’s still food on the shelves and all the vaccinated people I know are still with us.

Critical thinking is fundamental.

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Moon 2y ago

Additionally, author-less/anon content, when it happens to be correct, can be wielded as prophecy towards the manipulation of weak minds.

There is enough bandwidth out there for disinformation agents to be running thousands or tens of thousands of accounts with algorithms supported content posting. They can run these accounts and have them take combinations of different stances on multi variable outcome issues.

And as time goes on, the wind of with a few that get 5, 10 seemingly “unknowable” things right in a row. Then they use bots to promote that account to initiate the con and start feeding people bullshit that midwits will take as prophetic truth…