{"id":2068,"date":"2023-02-10T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T04:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2024-01-03T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:57:29","slug":"on-opinions-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2023\/02\/on-opinions-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"On Opinions and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Not everyone&#8217;s opinion is valuable. I shouldn&#8217;t even have an opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a strong opinion when you know nothing about a topic is your political right, sure, but it&#8217;s also a symptom of a psychological problem.<br><br>Having a society filled with such people becomes a social problem and social media has become a vector of strong, devicive, unfounded opinions for over a decade.<br><br>Do you just have to react to that thing that AOC said? About that thing that Tucker Carlson said? About that thing the cops may or may not have done in a city you&#8217;ve never been to?<br><br><strong><em>We have built tools that give an asymmetric advantage to liers and lunatics.<\/em><\/strong> Social media is not a level playing field and the idea that we are powerless to correct his problem because any efforts we make amount to &#8220;censorship&#8221; is insane. It&#8217;s masochistic and it&#8217;s demonstrably harming society. But, this is a hard problem to solve.<\/p>\n<cite>Sam Harris<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone&#8217;s opinion is valuable. I shouldn&#8217;t even have an opinion. Having a strong opinion when you know nothing about a topic is your political right, sure, but it&#8217;s also a symptom of a psychological problem. Having a society filled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2023\/02\/on-opinions-and-social-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}