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by nzhx76 17 days ago
Many Humans have platforms reaching hundreds of millions of people, from which they broadcast whatever batshit insane nonsense a 3 inch chimp brain can come up with. Why isnt that considered reckless?

Whether its a politician, a general, religious leader, judge, ceo, stand up comic etc there are hardly any consequences if enough people believe whatever crap they are spouting. Human intelligence is highly over rated. History books are fully of evidence that human rationality is bounded. And the only way we overcome those limitations, blindspots, biases etc is by watching others faceplant in bloody painful ways that it leaves a permanent mark on that little chimp brain we have been given to process the universe.

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Those crazy humans don't have simultaneous parallel conversations with a zillion people at once though.

They also don't get a presumption of objectivity.

> A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

-- Mitch Ratcliffe