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

Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:34PM (#34088254)

But how do you know the people in the comments actually know more and aren't just an equivalently low but slightly different common denominator? You don't. The same "shallow knowledge vs deep knowledge" problem still applies.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by Jensson on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:39PM (#34088281)

I often read topics where I am an expert, the comments has better information than the blog in most cases. Comments are written by multiple people since there are corrections from others below the comments etc, that makes them far better than most blogs. Single humans are wrong about a lot, multiple humans arguing are way more accurate.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by donmaq on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:16PM (#34088909)

> Single humans are wrong about a lot, multiple humans arguing are way more accurate.

I think this is only true if the commentors are SME's & operating in good faith. We've all seen whole threads hijacked by erroneous groupthink, while the 1 or 2 SME's were buried.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:53AM (#34093838)

The case where the hordes of commentors with casual knowledge downvote the one guy who knows enough to have some nuance because his opinion doesn't fit with their simple but wrong understanding seems far more common.

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