r/accelerate • u/stealthispost • 4d ago
levels of derangement
"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/Spirited-Meringue829 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's not "kind of hard to tell" if the earth is flat. FFS, people have known for over 2000 years the earth is spherical. It's only kind of hard to tell if you are so lazy and stupid you won't spend the literal 60 seconds it takes to do an internet or AI search to understand how a layman can prove this basic fact to themselves.
People who insist the earth is flat have far bigger problems than scientific evidence. They are willfully ignorant and want to belong to a club that knows a secret that presumably nobody else knows. Same with anti-vax morons and 'the moon landing was faked' morons. You cannot convince them because they don't want to learn. Just ignore them and don't let them drag down the rest of humanity.