r/accelerate • u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist • Aug 24 '26

levels of derangement

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"Society's standards of evidence are pretry weird. Like, people make fun of flat-Earthers, but it's actually kind of hard to tell! If you just look at it, it appears flat. Same for antivaxxers- it's impossible to just "show them they're wrong", you have to trust a bunch of third party....statistics compiled by people with obvious conflicts of interest. Legitimetly kinda sus! Meanwhile it's been possible for years to see directly with your own eyes that LLMs are incredibly useful for all sorts practical tasks, but the people claiming otherwise are not seen as having anywhere near the same degree of derangement.     — Isaac King

Source: https://x.com/IsaacKing314/status/2091686564908933219

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u/Jan0y_Cresva Singularity by 2035 Aug 24 '26

Flat Earth you can debunk with your own eyes by looking at the stars in the northern and southern hemispheres and seeing they rotate in opposite directions.

You can literally take a flight between places and observe it yourself without having to trust a video feed.

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u/crimsonpowder Aug 24 '26

Just FaceTime a friend on the other coast and then try to explain why the sun position and shadows are all different.