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.
Take the phrase “Every village has their idiot” and extrapolate that to the scale of the internet. Now the village idiots have groups chats to come up with more stupid shit, conventions and focus groups to brainstorm the dumbest shit imaginable.
Keep in mind that the algorithms will push the most engaging content to you, so you’ll see stuff that pisses people off the most. It’s literally upvoting troll accounts automatically.
Anyway, whenever you encounter an actual account who is posting stupid false narratives, the best way isn’t to start arguing or throw links to true explanations and such.
Instead, simply ask them “why do you believe that stupid shit?” and leave them to either investigate the matter themselves, thereby hopefully teaching them something, or let them back out with the typical non-answer like “do your own research” which itself undermines whatever they just said.
I never encountered such people on the internet which leads me to think you may be alone in this situation. Maybe they are not stupid and it is your superior intelligence that makes you wonder if anyone was ever faced with such events? They say doubt is a sign of intelligence!
Algorithms are designed for engagement.
Stupid shit generates engagement.
Funnel works as intended.
Because the human brain is a pattern-matching, rationalization engine and not a database with any sort of logic discrimination built into the interfaces?
I dunno. Seems like the same result happens when we dream; buncha random stimulus with no bearing on realty, brain “invents” a narrative that explains the anomaly, and hermetically seals off that “truth” from evidence that would implode it.
“Wait… People are stupid?” 👩🚀🔫👩🚀 “Always have been.”
Tribalism. We care more about being accepted by our desired peers than being correct. At least, that’s what articles and podcasts have told me. Also, stupid. Weaken education and make people stupid and unable to think critically. Do you think Ted Cruz (Harvard) was complaining about the Paris Accord because he genuinely didn’t know that it wasn’t Paris-only? His voters are goddamned morons and he knows it. The contempt is sickening, but they see none of it.
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.
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.
Thanks. It’s ok, they’re kind of proving my point.
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.
Lemmy has spoken.
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.
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.
“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.
