• Susaga@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    If you and Elon disagree about something, just assume he’s wrong about it. If you both agree on something, THEN you might be mistaken.

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        4 hours ago

        I hope the screenshot dude is also going to stop this unquestioning belief in the things people say or claim without evidence.

        Those first two paragraphs look like a tendency to prefer hero-worship to critical thought; that seems to be a fairly widespread problem in humans from long before this latest batch of demagogues.

        There’s also a hint of “I’m not an ‘expert’ in it so I can’t (be bothered) to understand anything about it” also a very depressingly common attitude.

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          We all have to rely on somebody to be an expert in fields outside our own. Years ago, if Elon said “Falcon 9 launch yesterday failed due to xyz”, I assumed he had the actual experts giving him notes. The Xhitter debacle showed how much he doesn’t listen to those people.

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            It’s kind of funny, but we all do this to some extent. I used to think most people on Reddit were super smart. If someone says stuff with authority, then it’s easy to believe what they’re saying and assume they know what they’re talking about.

            But then every once in a while, I’d come across a topic that I know deeply about - and the comment would just be blatantly wrong, but still have tons of up votes. It really made me start second guessing all the other comments I had read and thought were smart, but it’s an easy trap to fall into.

            I guess what I’m really saying, is that you all are a bunch of morons, probably.

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            4 hours ago

            I just dont get why you have to assume that though?

            Maybe I’m a pessimist, but I’ve met and worked with enough humans that I think the best assumtion is that they’re all full of shit until they prove otherwise.

            It’s fine to rely on experts for some things, but if those experts aren’t subject to independent scrutiny or directly independent of the claim or sunjecy under test, or can’t give clear testable /replicable evidence, I’d just not put much weight on their testimony as a source of evidence.

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      7 hours ago

      Indeed. I’m starting to think I can’t trust what that Musk guy says.

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      If it’s tech he doesn’t know shit about it, I learned that years ago during the Twitter acquisition days

      He sounds like a CEO who “knows enough to fuck shit up, not enough to know how to fix it, but thinks they do” AKA the worst executive known to IT