Hoo boy do I radically disagree. It utterly depends on what kind of knowledge you’re talking about. Because there’s lots that’s not on the internet, but the cult of the internet makes people think it contains everything.
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Clearly I have smarter millennial friends than you
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Simple test: do you *really* think the world would be a better informed place in a broad sense if Wikipedia were shut down by law today? If yes then I walk away from this thread jaw open and doubting your sanity.
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The minor cost is a bunch of newly-shallowly-informed people arguing with experts not used to being challenged at all The major benefit is overall higher knowledge levels, though at (acceptable) higher noise levels
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Fine then, my diff with you is probably that I think people are engaging with it just fine. Even if they get uppity with professors who know better as a result and don't always read a conflict right. ie they're drinking responsibly most of the time.
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The "rampant crazy alcoholism" is happening via other sources like say infowars or anti-vaxx facebook groups, not wikipedia (which is what I'm specifically defending).
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Sure, and it's harder to see those dynamics in Wikipedia because of its normie sheen. I get that and I get that many people don't. Wikipedia induces false sense of security. It's a case of "celibacy is just another sexual perversion" but monks get treated like they're better.
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But *despite* that, despite most wikipedia users not being aware it's just another blue-pill matrix like any weird subculture and perhaps trusting it too much, I argue it is a) still a net good b) still no worse than the similar false sense of security of newspapers/academia
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There you go. Harambe was just the first of many self-immanatized eschatons to come. Each creating a heaven-on-earth comprising bunnyholes for suitable bunnies. There is no red pill, only 50 shades of blue. Alice is always in some wonderland. Q is, can she talk to Bob in his?
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Yes, because people will bill correspondence tables between different meme plexes, those you've absorbed will be noted through data analysis, and each person's individual argot will be automatically translated to that of any of their readers.
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