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How to quit the internet for dummies: (instructions found from a great comic)
1. Tell them you’re leaving (optional)
2. Leave
If only that were happening. Instead, what seems to be happening is more and more people assume that anyone who disagrees with them is not a bot, and so any disagreeable facts or arguments can simply be disregarded. That doesn’t mean that they are exactly ignored — the anger is still there — but it’s only emotion, not reason.
It’s ironic that this is happening at the same time that AI is starting to formulate mathematical proofs. Mathematicians don’t much care where the proof comes from, only whether it is valid or not.
It’s almost as though the typical social media user does not have a degree in mathematics.