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Comment by reliabilityguy

7 hours ago

> More importantly, when will the common folk stop delegating critical thinking to these corporations?

When were the times when people didn’t outsource the critical thinking to others?

Never I think, it's time we started choosing not to.

Remember what is need not necessarily continue being so.

  • Any time the basic premise is 'humans should stop doing the thing they've always done' you better have a hell of a mechanism to hold that vector, and the mechanism better keep working forever, or it's a non starter.

    Literally no human progress has been based on 'we should be better'. It's been based on exploiting bugs in the human firmware to achieve some result. See: organized religion, the city-state, democracy, etc ...

    Individual people can be rational and morally driven. People as a general population cannot.