My son-in-law is an engineer who knows a lot about cars. He wouldn’t have a Tesla as a gift. He knows more about it than I do, so I defer to him on the subject.My son, who is a software engineer, just told me that people who know software just had their Elon Musk realization. pic.twitter.com/eEFBuoHREm
— B Graham Disciple (@bgrahamdisciple) December 26, 2022
We tend to defer to people who just sound like they know what they’re talking about, too.
I think Paul Simon was closer to it (“A man hears what he wants to hear…”), but the fundamental truth is, reasoning is hard and if it leads you to decide everything in the paper is wrong (it probably is), more than a little disturbing. That logic can destroy your ability to function. How do you know anything is true unless you learn everything about everything for yourself?Gell-Mann Amnesia pic.twitter.com/cY4a8mgEOu
— Second Breakfast (@nick__whip) December 26, 2022
Clearly that way lies conspiracies and madness. Or Iago.
Ultimately we face the Iago situation: how do we function as social creatures if we can’t trust other individuals? Am I casting Elmo as Iago? Not quite: Iago knew what he was doing. Elmo only thinks he does.
Elno physically attacking a Twitter server was accurately foretold by The Onion pic.twitter.com/acgq6gBvVT
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) December 25, 2022
When you’re playing out stories from “The Onion,” well…
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