Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks

Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by jpttsn on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:24AM (#19293933)

That’s a false dilemma; as long as I’m not resigned to hopeless infotainment addiction, I don’t have to believe the “least bad” reporting about events that don’t concern me.

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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by UncleMeat on Sunday March 03, 2019 @12:25PM (#19295575)

I am absolutely 100% confident that the success rate of individuals with no training doing their own research is way way way lower than the success rate of the academic community consensus.

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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by jpttsn on Sunday March 03, 2019 @01:10PM (#19295814)

That’s not what I’m arguing against. I’m not claiming to be a better truth-seeker than the academic community.

I am claiming that a lot of this truth has no meaning to me, and I’m comfortable with not seeking it. If that sounds horrible, consider a special case like celebrity gossip. Am I better than the magazines at getting to the bottom of it? Probably not. Does that fact implore me to seek their “knowledge”?

I distrust many media accounts of events. I don’t believe their opposites either. And I don’t “do my own research”. I just embrace ignorance of things that don’t matter to me.

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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by mistermann on Saturday March 09, 2019 @01:41PM (#19347697)

In the aggregate, or in all cases?

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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by pjc50 on Sunday March 03, 2019 @08:37AM (#19294366)

It may not matter what you believe, but it matters what the aggregate total of your fellow voters believe.

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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by jpttsn on Sunday March 03, 2019 @08:52AM (#19294414)

Is your point that most voters are hopeless infotainment addicts?

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