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Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by marcellus23 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:20PM (#41660912)
Go back to any random year in human history and ask the older people whether they think the world was better when they were young. They will all say "yes" (evidence for this exists in countless survived writings, as well as other social phenomena like people becoming more conservative as they age). It's one of the most natural things in the world.

That alone should be a very strong signal that maybe your nostalgia is not based on a rational unbiased observation of the changes in society.

edit: and to be clear, obviously there have been times in history where things really did get worse for a period. But if you're proposing that that's happening now, you have a massive burden of proof to overcome, and you should be absolutely really totally sure that you're not being influenced by rose-tinted glasses. Which I'm not even sure is possible.

Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by stiray on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:26PM (#41660962)
I understood immediately where you are pointing. And I wish you would be right.

Correlation does not imply causation.

Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by marcellus23 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:33PM (#41661035)
So what? You believe the world has gotten worse every year since the beginning of time? Or is it that all those older people throughout history have been wrong, but somehow it's you that's finally gotten it right?
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by stiray on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:38PM (#41661071)
Whatever. I don't have time to fight every logical fallacy you produce. I think I have explained it well, there is no need for me to bother with everyone who doesn't understand it.
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by zer0zzz on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:08AM (#41666790)
Your Kaczynskian wall of text sure told em.