[PartiallyTyped]

Everyone wants to be the hero in their own story, changing your beliefs requires introspection and humility. It's far easier to blame somebody else than yourself and take responsibility. It's trivial to feed people some narrative that trivializes reality and, in their mind, acknowledges them as underdogs and elevates them as "right".

The triviality of this allows malevolent actors to disrupt society and produce a chasm through echo chambers, each amplifying particular voices and shifting narrative.

Free speech is important, but it won't be found on X, or pravda-dot-social, and as much has been proven multiple times. What I take issue with and hint at is that neither of these are platforms that support free-speech, they are merely illusions, and people who yap about wrongthink are exactly those oblivious to said fact.

Personally, I am tired of arguing with people, I am tired of seeking truth in conversations with people unwilling to change their minds, I just want to live my life, safely.

[yakshaving_jgt]

I think that’s right. I broadly agree with everything you’ve written here. I’m just dissatisfied with this as a status quo, where more reasonable people have [justifiably] resigned themselves to the reality that reasoning with the unreasonable doesn’t usually pay [moral] dividends.

[epictacactus]

But in reality, this has been the status quo for all of Humanity. It’s just that we now have this infinite ledger via the internet to document it. Only 200 years ago, your “honest opinion” would find you in the gallows more often than not across the world. This “progressed” to social exile in lieu of said gallows, and now to seeking out the like minded in echo chambers. I will hold out hope that interfacing with articulate AI’s can support more people to regain their identity and confidence where so many lack the courage to try publicly (or are surrounded by the foolish).