I trust no one.
Joe’s
That OP always has an agenda. Doesn’t matter which OP but there is always one.
My spouse’s.
I also trust @Nemo@slrpnk.net’s spouse’s opinion.
The way I knew what this comment said before I read it lmao
This!!1
Looool reddit moment
Please let me give you poor mans gold 🏅
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of this reference.
reddit ass comment
lemmy ass judgement
Yes that’s indeed where the refrence comes from, thanks for the insight big dawg.
I thought it came from Slashdot, or possibly Usenet…
sorry
My own.
It’s cliché but listening to my gut typically works out
David Attenborough’s.
You agree Africans should starve for some Malthusian nonsense?
I don’t trust opinions, just facts.
I trust truth over facts
How do you decide what is a fact and what isn’t?
You don’t need to trust facts.
That’s what makes them facts.But have you considered these alternative “facts”?
There are no alternative facts. Only additional facts.
Alternatively there are lies.
You’re absolutely right, but as long as there are people who DON’T trust facts, it’s probably still worth mentioning now and then.
That’s not really how facts or opinions work. I hate anti answers, why even participate in the thread.
On what?
Different people have different bodies of knowledge and experience. Their expertise on one question doesn’t transfer to another.Greta Thunberg
I trust the opinions of open minded and wise scientists the most. The people that should IMO have been our leaders instead of self serving politicians.
Disagree we should have no leaders and how do you define “open minded and wise” and how do you prevent scientists promoting something like eugenics again.
We will always have leaders in some capacity. We are too wired to lead and to follow.
Based on archeological evidence, humans lived in horizontal egalitarian societies for most of our existence. It’s only relatively recently that we have deviated from that norm and began to live under hierarchical, unequal societies.
More recent history has demonstrated that we can quite easily return to a non-hierarchical society, and quite successfully.
This seems to prove that we are just as wired for no leaders as we are for leaders, and we can choose which path we want to take. Currently, it appears that the leader path virtually always leads to corruption, control, and capitalist fascism, which is ultimately incompatible with a habitable planet/biosphere, so uh… I think we should take the other path, maybe.
Weren’t elders/shamans/gurus looked up to as sort of spiritual and worldly advisor/authority figures back then? Granted, it’s not the same as being a chief/leader, but they talked, and their community listened and generally followed their advice.
As you say, a collective of people asking an elder for advice and collectively making a decision on it is quite different from being ordered by a leader and forced to follow it.
Experts in specific fields are still looked to for advice and help in a egalitarian society, there just isn’t a rigid hierarchical structure that makes them have more institutional power than anyone else. As an example, in revolutionary Spain, there was still a need for doctors, electricians, train operators, farmers, etc, but they no longer had a boss they had to listen to, they were able to self-organize whatever they thought would meet the needs of their society best, and those not skilled in those areas deferred to their knowledge and experience for situations that fell under it.
This was documented quite thoroughly in Sam Dolgoff’s book from 1974, The Anarchist Collectives Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–1939, along with Gaston Leval’s 1975 Collectives in the Spanish revolution, if you’d like to investigate the specifics.
Why? This is statement with no reasoning given.
Yeah, it’s called an opinion. An opinion which is formed from my own observations. You can take it or leave it, but I’m going to keep saying it.
Except it runs counter to all evidence but whatever use your biased “personal observations”.
I will do, thank you!
Do you have a source for “all evidence” that humans are not actually “wired to lead and to follow” or that human society is functional on a large scale without having leaders in some fashion?
If I had to pick an “intellectual hero” of mine, it would be Sam Harris. It’s not so much that I trust his opinions but I trust his thinking process. I can’t think of anyone else I pay so much attention to while finding so little to disagree with.
I bet that, considering the platform I’m at, if someone recognizes the name they almost definitely don’t like the guy. If you want to discuss that then I’m willing to for as long as you can be civil about it.
Ehh he supports the Gaza genocide, supports some uses of torture and is an open islamaphobe.
Was that a question?
If it was how can you trust someone with those opinions at all never mind “the most”?
Because I’m perfectly aware of what he actually thinks about these issues and you’re not fairly representing those views. I’m not going to defend views he doesn’t hold.
Look into any of his statements about israel palestine you are factually wrong no point talking to you.
Telling someone they’re wrong is much less convincing than demonstrating it by laying out the evidence.
It’s pretty clear you just don’t like the guy based on what you’ve heard someone say about him and are now just having an emotional reaction to someone bringing it up. If you actually had a point you would’ve already made it.
This criticism is like the anti-Sam Harris 101 entry level talking points. I’ve heard it countered hundreds of times before. I’m surprised you didn’t also mention the Bell Curve and racism.
Look into any of his statements where he argues Israel has a right to defend itself, that Palestinians are genocidal, that colonialism isn’t a thing on and on and yes I also think iq is nonsense.
- Anthropic Claude
- Google Gemini
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
Edit: in that order.
The question asks “whose”, which implies a sapient, or at least sentient, individual or group. LLMs are neither sapient nor sentient.
No one’s. Not even mine. Everyone is an idiot. Especially me.
Hank Green, and Alec from Technology Connections. Wildly different energy levels, but broadly speaking I trust them to do their homework or to outright say they haven’t.
I don’t trust anyone’s opinion unless it’s based on sound evidence and repeatable results and even then, I’ll only trust the opinions of those who are willing to change their opinion based on new knowledge. So, given that, I’ll trust my young kids opinions on things they have researched and learnt about, or a doctor’s opinion if it’s on something they’re knowledgeable about, and my own in areas where I’m an expert.
How MUCH I trust them is a different thing. If it’s something that doesn’t really affect me if it’s not 100% accurate…meh
