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by lloydde 3313 days ago
> Nowadays information is just a Google search away, so knowing a lot doesn't really mean as much as it used to.

You give Google search too much credit. What is a click away is still largely superficial information on any topic and the popular (or specific data set) is often extremely biased or downright incorrect.
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cocktailpeanuts 3313 days ago
"First world problems"
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yladiz 3312 days ago
It is not a "first world problem" to want to search for accurate and unbiased information.
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cocktailpeanuts 3312 days ago
I guess you didn't get the metaphor "first world problem".

Go back a couple of decades and you'll find central authorities and organizations with agenda to manipulate the public could easily do so because the rest 99.99% didn't have access to information.

People who wanted truth had absolutely 0 way of attaining the truth back then. Now you're complaining about how it's "hard" to search for accurate and unbiased information. It's not even THAT hard, you just need to google a bit more, sure it's not easy for everyone, but at least there's a way.

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lloydde 3312 days ago
Context matters and the context of my assertion was "Nowadays information is just a Google search away, so knowing a lot doesn't really mean as much as it used to."

Knowing a lot still means a lot ;)

I do generally agree with you though I'm hesitant to use the term "truth". There is a part where it is first world solution: a lot more information is now also available to citizens in the first world.

But you are wrong that it is not that hard or that it is an issue of googling a bit more. In many areas Google's improvements in these decades has been incremental. And if your search term matches hot commerce terms then likely no amount of googling will get you where you want to go.

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cocktailpeanuts 3312 days ago
Yeah i take back my words about how it's not that hard. I think I'm relatively good at google myself, sometimes I wonder how people who're not good at searching can live their lives. For example, most of the times "being a good programmer" means being able to come up with the right search query to search for your problem on stackoverflow. Most of the times you don't even know what to search for.

That said, I've been comparing the current status with how it used to be before the Internet, so I guess we're pretty much on the same page.

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