• brown567@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    21 hours ago

    The best part is that “my own research” now includes asking the misinformation machine and taking its response at face value! =D

    • Tja@programming.dev
      3·
      19 hours ago

      How is that any different from asking the search machine or the echo chamber non-machine? If you want to confirm your bias you will find a way, and will disregard all evidence to the contrary on your way there.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    22 hours ago

    Two books I started reading knowing I’d disagree with the author:

    • Introduction to Austrian Economics. That school of economics is helpful as a model for understanding economics, though only through the lens of an idealized system. The same way that understanding how a point-like mass moves helps you understand how a canon ball moves. But then it goes on to say that your inalienable/natural right to safety in your person is basically the fundamental property right from which all of what the anarcho-capitalists call “theory” directly derives. Which makes it rather circular. “Property rights ∴ property rights.”
    • The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil. I knew my reaction to it would be visceral, but defending DRM was the last straw. I finished the Austrian Economics book. But I didn’t get a quarter of the way into the Kurzweil book before rage quitting.