We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)

Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by joe_the_user on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:08PM (#34085732)

As a response to the GP, You're making this much too hard. Google's results have become the crap they describes fairly recently - in the last two years, with a specific and noticeable change (and good stuff is even still there if one works hard and the crappiness might have receded a bit lately, even).

Sure, one also needs understanding to get something out of search. But Google when was in it's sweet-spot, it could get a researcher extra knowledge and insight. After all, a researcher needs both a holistic perspective and information they'd know at the start of an exploration.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by hosh on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:28PM (#34085970)

Some years ago, Google+ had this question for me as a way to populate my profile: "What are things you still cannot find on Google?". I know why they asked that question, yet I was tickled by the more interesting question: "What you will never find on Google?"

I was so tickled that I put it on my profile here on HN and elsewhere -- but all of those things I put down are different ways of saying "Wisdom".

Google has aspirations about organizing the world's knowledge, and making it easy to search for facts and knowledge. What I'm saying here is that people have never been able to find wisdom in a Google search -- and never will. Each person finds it within themselves through awareness of wholes.

So in my view, it is not that it's getting harder to find wisdom from a Google search, but rather, the proliferation of knowledge and facts over the years have increasingly made it even more distracting to find wisdom within themselves.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by russellendicott on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:47PM (#34088327)

Or it's a trick and the mere fact that you're seeking answers and asking for help is the wisest move of all.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by stevenally on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:32PM (#34088633)

Yep. Maybe the search for wisdom starts with sitting silent and still under a tree for a while.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by mcqueenjordan on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:53AM (#34090278)

What you'll never find on Google: a good answer to "What should be added to Google?"

The Göögle Incompleteness Theorem

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