Re:Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]
by codeflo on Sunday April 20, 2025 @04:59AM
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Amplifying stupid can be very deadly, though. In some sense, the printing press caused the 30-year war, and radio brought us World War II. Eventually, society will adapt. I just wish we could find a way to adapt faster than the bad actors do.
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(continuing in that vein, and taking the liberty of making a giant oversimplification):
...and TV brought us Ronald Reagan, and the Internet gave us Trump as POTUS.
Re:Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]
by daseiner1 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @08:48AM
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i think it’s consensus that yellow journalism directly led to the spanish-american war via hearst
Re:Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]
by KineticLensman on Sunday April 20, 2025 @10:27AM
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> In some sense, the printing press caused the 30-year war,
Well the 30-year war definitely showed technology-driven speed-up. Before the printing press we had wars that lasted for 100 years [0]
Just to be clear, that "speed-up" is not a good thing: Those 100 years were a lot less deadly in total. The World Wars were even shorter and much deadlier still. A possible next full-blown conflict between major powers will only last hours -- and end civilization.