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  Agreed, but I think a framing or two is missing here, and it only applies to a subset, is that the people of the world shouldn't have to deal with more/larger bot nets because these things haven't been considered. Another is just that the average great aunt isn't *opting into a concept of insecurity* they're simply ignorant to what threats there are. If it's possible to distinguish between the two sets of people, or to maybe even bucket devices by potential threat, it might...

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  I can't believe this is so heavily downvoted for pointing out flaws in the expressed/written stance while still expressing they agree with the general position

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  > For each statement, between 25% and 32% of respondents said they believed it, and another sizeable percentage (17–39%) said they didn’t know whether it was true. In total, 70% of respondents believed at least one of the claims (see ‘Divided views’). The findings, which have not been peer reviewed and were published today by the Edelman Trust Institute in New York City, were described as ‘staggering’ in an accompanying article by the think tank’s chief executive, Richard Edelman. ![](https:...

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  I wonder what you do about this. I just started reading Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, published in 1994, and the intro is basically saying the same thing but framed as curious people being more well read in Atlantis than they are in interesting recent science or critical thinking skills

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  What do you mean?

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  I have wanted to transform things I didn't know how but it seemed possible. I searched and didn't quickly come up with an answer. I asked an LLM, and it gave me a confident answer. I checked the man for the tool and the LLM had used creative writing to create the interface I expected should exist... but it did not exist. I don't know how you're swapping or merging these basic facts: 1. If you're told the binary and the flag, the validation of the LLMs output is fast (ei...

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  Ahhh... what!? Its linux, its faster to man the command or to type it. Point is that it usefulness to bullshit ratio *for me* in that situation was far too low

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  How is that the perfect example? Shouldn't it open up the question "why do these subsidies still exist and can we phase them out" not "subsidies are bad"?

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  Kickstarting new infrastructure is one place government money tends to work well. You can always phase out the subsidies and there is an argument that battery tech benefited from a feedback loop (used in phones until infra and tech was cheap enough for cars+) and something needs to kickstart that for their recycling, government stepping in to start that loop isn't uncommon or as terrible as you seem to be making it out

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  > Any time I want to know if a linux command exists to manipulate data This is one of the reasons I'm very cautious of my genAI use. Most of the time I got to the stage where I thought "there should be a command / way to do this" and I asked an LLM it would tell me the intuitive interface that I expected existed. But when I tested it didn't exist, the answer had just been creative writing