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I know! One day it's going to get so bad people are going to have to deploy critical thinking instead of accepting what they read at face value and suffer the indignity of having to think for themselves.


Critical thinking won't help you when the majority (or all) of your sources are tainted and contradictory. At some point, the actual truth just gets swamped.


This is already happening, just with humans networked into social networks that favor quick reshare over deep review


This. Robots can spout 1000x more content than humans, if not more.


"the actual truth"


I'm going to throw some wild guess here and say that this sudden increase in critical thinking won't happen.


10,000 years of human civilization and this hasn't happened yet, huh? Any day now, I'm sure


Will they also learn to avoid magical thinking like "People en masse will all of a sudden develop abilities out of the blue"?


Sadly they don't. They start to believe to random things in and reject what they don't like.


Maybe that'll also be the Year of the Linux desktop I keep hearing so much about.


Maybe somebody could create an AI that evaluates the factfulness of articles.


This is possible, especially with human in the loop.


Or have the AI generate only fact-based, polite and relevant comments.

Related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/




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