• Susaga@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    We don’t even know if you even read about it. Unless I have experience of what you’re talking about, I can’t say you’re wrong. Heck, even if I have experience, I don’t know that you didn’t just have a different experience.

    You can find a good source for your claims, or some supporting evidence, or someone else can come along and back you up. I still wouldn’t know, given how easily you can fake sources on the internet, so you could still be lying.

    At a certain point, you just need to take it on faith.

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      8 days ago

      That much is obvious.

      I’d say that the important things are

      1. That we swallow knowledge gained this way pretty much automatically. Like the default is to believe it or react to it, with very little filtering.

      2. That it lacks indicators that might help us filter it. First-hand knowledge and tenth-hand knowledge look exactly the same.