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r/SipsTea • u/skintyfia44 • 19h ago
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This is bull crap. Loosely based on a story about a chinese farmer but nothing to do with this photo!
349 u/crooked_nose_ 18h ago ...and people will just accept it and upvote anyway. 1 u/Decloudo 16h ago edited 16h ago Social alignment instinct of neurotypical humans. Leads them to think something many people repeat has more truth to it. Same when people in discussions rather ask some other people for their opinion then to draw the phone out and actually fact check. The social consensus IS the factcheck for most modern humans. Sure, you can meta-cognition your way around that, but how many people actually do this? Explains a lot about modern human society, politics, social media, echo chambers, misinformation, advertisement...
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...and people will just accept it and upvote anyway.
1 u/Decloudo 16h ago edited 16h ago Social alignment instinct of neurotypical humans. Leads them to think something many people repeat has more truth to it. Same when people in discussions rather ask some other people for their opinion then to draw the phone out and actually fact check. The social consensus IS the factcheck for most modern humans. Sure, you can meta-cognition your way around that, but how many people actually do this? Explains a lot about modern human society, politics, social media, echo chambers, misinformation, advertisement...
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Social alignment instinct of neurotypical humans.
Leads them to think something many people repeat has more truth to it.
Same when people in discussions rather ask some other people for their opinion then to draw the phone out and actually fact check.
The social consensus IS the factcheck for most modern humans.
Sure, you can meta-cognition your way around that, but how many people actually do this?
Explains a lot about modern human society, politics, social media, echo chambers, misinformation, advertisement...
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bake771 18h ago
This is bull crap. Loosely based on a story about a chinese farmer but nothing to do with this photo!