I could ask, “Is this real?”, and people will doubt it.
I could ask, “Are people really this stupid?”, and no one would doubt it.
So, while generally, we all know people can be this stupid, we’re still skeptical when confronted with evidence.
“Stop thinking bro, it hurts my head”
Did you ask ChatGPT?
I’m mainly skeptical because this is like the 10th variation on this same joke I’ve seen
Still a valid point though
Yeah, I just don’t believe this is evidence. A discord convo paraphrasing a tweet which was stolen from another tweet, etc etc. OP is a teenager who posts a lot of r/badfaketexts stuff
It sounds less like “thinking” in general, and more a specific kind of thinking where you imagine you’re having a conversation with another person (or thing, in this case), except that they’re just a part of your own predictive mechanism of your brain
I think programmers call that rubber duck debugging.
Yep, and it’s important. Called that because classically you put a rubber duck on top of your crt monitor to talk to so you don’t have to drag another human in. I usually just drag another human in though even if all they do is stand there while I talk it out myself
Flesh duck
That’s what junior engineers are for. I’m mentoring!
Devolved back to the bicameral mind.
I’m disappointed, but if this is what it takes to get people thinking for themselves again, I guess I have to support it.
Shut up… ‘batin’.
