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.
People were/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.
Thanks. It’s ok, they’re kind of proving my point.
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.
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.
stupid people used to admit they are stupid.
now they just shout at you how they are geniuses and the likes they get on tiktok prove it.
No barrier to entry, successful bait, the machine knows that type of content makes you feel something (happy, angry, who cares?) because you looked at it for 6% longer than other posts or some shit so it shovels more into your face. Combination of things. The only winning move is not to play.
I fully agree with your statement but I was referring specifically about the comment section, it seems like people tend to be stupid there no matter where you go even if I don’t interact with any of it whilst being in guest mode; maybe I’m misinterpreting something from your statement but feel free to correct me
Stupid how though?
like make jokes, or post wrong information, or argue incessently from from a different set of facts than you?
stupid comes in a variety of different ways.
Perhaps you are talking more about how folks develop patently delusional/false thought patterns/beliefs and propagate them?
a lot of the time it’s simply that we are different and we regard those who have different beliefs/preferences/choices as stupid, and they think the same about us.
Stupid like accusing others of making alt accounts to talk to themselves when they’re clearly different people?
“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.
It only seems that way because the stupidest people are the loudest and spend the most time on social media.
Lemmy has spoken.
Nowadays compared to when?
https://xkcd.com/202/ was published in 2006, so you must be thinking of much earlier than that…
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.
Conversely, logical deduction, mathematics, statistics, etc., etc., are not natural to our instincts. They’re skills that must be learned.
They are also skills that get you socially alienated when you use them outside of their academic use. Going to a stats conference and you can talks states and methods all day. But bring them up at a wedding and everyone will loath you.
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.
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.
‘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.
Because you and you alone are an OMEGA brained GENIUS who is never wrong.
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’d throw in to not interact with the troll at all. Report, block, move on.
I wish I had a good answer. Unfortunately it’s on social media because people believe what they want to a lot of times. I was at a geology conference this one time presenting a poster and was approached by a seemingly nice gentleman. After hearing my spiel he starts lecturing me about how none of this is possible because the Earth is only 6 000 years old. A little bit later I actually got to meet a flat earther in person! The fact that those two people not only hold those beliefs but felt the need to go spread the word at a geology conference is quite confusing to me. When you compound the effects of social media algorithms a lot of people don’t stand a chance.
he was no doubt farming for content.
lots of influencers do stupid shit like this because they know it will get them clout with their followers. you aren’t the audience… you are to be cast as the villain(s) in their heroic flat earth narrative, which is exactly what their audience loves and furious hits the like/share button.
These people were not influencers, just people with strong held beliefs. They weren’t filming anything or pushing social media. Recording posters is actually against that conference’s policy
so it was pure ego tripping then.
Pretty much. People can be weird.
