Not to be a downer or anything, but I feel like the person who challenged the story wasn’t really in the wrong here?
It’s not that the story isn’t true or the person who reported it isn’t who they said it was. It’s that, they didn’t mention their credentials right off. Now that we’re living in an era when misinformation is rife, especially now that some people appear poised to flood us with a sea of LLM-generated shit, citations and backing up your information up front are becoming more important.
People make confident and bold assertions all the time. Some of them will know what they’re talking about, but some of them won’t, and many times they’ll look the same until someone challenges them.
Every range I did in the military, they stressed that everyone on the range was a safety officer, and that anyone can call cease fire at any time if they felt conditions were unsafe. So yeah, that’s how I see it.
Not to be a downer or anything, but I feel like the person who challenged the story wasn’t really in the wrong here?
It’s not that the story isn’t true or the person who reported it isn’t who they said it was. It’s that, they didn’t mention their credentials right off. Now that we’re living in an era when misinformation is rife, especially now that some people appear poised to flood us with a sea of LLM-generated shit, citations and backing up your information up front are becoming more important.
People make confident and bold assertions all the time. Some of them will know what they’re talking about, but some of them won’t, and many times they’ll look the same until someone challenges them.
Well, that’s how I see it anyway.
Every range I did in the military, they stressed that everyone on the range was a safety officer, and that anyone can call cease fire at any time if they felt conditions were unsafe. So yeah, that’s how I see it.