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  • To clarify I meant responsibility like when people act on their shitty beliefs (e.g. Jan6).

    How is the population supposed to fight that?

    I don’t know. It feels like such a losing battle.

    Maybe it all boils down to the dumb luck of coming across the right viewpoints at the right moment? But we’re in a world where you fall so easily into echo chambers where you won’t see those viewpoints, get increasingly isolated, and your social relationships hinge more and more around these beliefs…

    And that’s a scary thought.

    I was lucky and grew past my Catholic conservative upbringing. But I might’ve not as well. I would’ve missed everything that makes my current life worth living…

    In the meantime this is a situation that has been ongoing since the advent of mass media. It has evolved, became more individualized and targeted, but its core hasn’t really changed since at least the beginning of the 20th century. And still we haven’t found a satisfying response since then.



  • I’m not sure I entirely agree about the personal responsibility.

    I mean, it feels right that people are responsible for the views they hold and the actions they take based on them.

    Otoh it also feels like blaming the addict for their addiction or the cult member for being exploited.

    I’m really conflicted and I don’t think I can reach a clear cut conclusion.









  • iff is the shorthand for “if and only if”.

    If you said “if it is a horse it has hooves” you can infer “all horses have hooves” but not that “all hooved creatures are horses”.

    Otoh if you said “iff a polygon has 3 sides, it is a triangle” you can infer that all polygons that have 3 sides are triangles and that there are no other ways to make triangles.

    edit: This was typed by sleep deprived me, I tried to fix it.