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0 pointsdionidium8y ago0 comments

"Should we censor social media, because people are too stupid to deal with it? I don't think so and if you do, you're playing in the hands of corporations who want a cheap work force."

Just as a sort of general, broad response to this sentiment: yes absolutely. I envy your optimism, but the belief amongst the Hacker News set that humans are universally capable of educating their way out from under deeply-rooted biological faults is misguided. You're not going to educate people out of conferring status on the most popular people/stories/posts/etc. You're competing against at least a few hundred thousand years of evolution (and many of these processes go back much, much further than that.) You won't win.

So, yes, absolutely we should be working on ways to acknowledge and route around human foibles, not pretending we can eliminate them.

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paulddraper8y ago

We really are better off if wiser and more capable organization -- like a bigger brother of sorts -- gets rid of the wrong facts and incorrect ideas.

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0 pointsdionidium8y ago0 comments

"Should we censor social media, because people are too stupid to deal with it? I don't think so and if you do, you're playing in the hands of corporations who want a cheap work force."

So, yes, absolutely we should be working on ways to acknowledge and route around human foibles, not pretending we can eliminate them.