Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Tue, 20 May 2025 00:11:31 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :

However, if our rationality is just an epiphenomenon, how can we be
confident in our perception of any external truths?

 
How does the justification for that question follow from the
assumption?

 
Yikes! The classic self-referential paradox indeed!

 
Argument by reductio ad absurdum, in fact. A great way to prove that there
is something wrong with your argument.

The main proof of my argument is that "they" spend BILLIONS of dollars in
advertising things like Apple's "reliability" when, in fact, iOS is the
least secure, least updated, and the most exploited phone in history.
 <https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog>

Advertising works.
Even as it's often baseless propaganda (in the case of Apple's marketing).

People believe that the solution to murder is to hide the sticks.
They're told to believe that.

People believe that premium gas is better simply because it costs more.

In California, people believe an electric car, which pollutes twice as much
as ICE vehicles (cradle to grave) is "pollution free".

Even the fact that we think cow's "milk is natural" (for adults) is based
simply on a BILLION DOLLAR propaganda campaign.

Propaganda works.
Because the vast majority of people are incredible stupid.

Yet, everything they think they know... is wrong.
Like Gravity being a force (when it's clearly not a force).

My estimate is only one out of million people has the capacity to think.
The rest believe the advertising/propaganda lies they're told to believe.