How else do you combat Poe's law
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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By making people smarter and better acquainted with one another.
When the society’s too big to know everyone, we rely on shared culture to know things about the people we’re talking to.
Poe’s Law is a (cynical, defeatist, self-fulfilling) declaration that we have lost cultural cohesiveness as a society.
We need to take risks in order to adapt and survive. And the risk that some internet stranger might miss your sarcasm in a comment is such a small risk it’s extremely bad news if we become so risk intolerant we won’t venture some unmarked sarcasm.
The whole point of sarcasm is that it signals cooperation and cohesion between two minds. It’s like a handshake. Don’t underestimate culture just because it doesn’t seem to have a function.
Sarcasm is like the appendix. Useless until we figure out what it’s useful for.
Bro I'm just here for the memes
What's stopping me from deploying sarcasm as a means of poor-faith social manipulation against those who believe that?
I'd love it if everyone was educated with at least some core values to relate to, but we live in this current reality where a dumb-fuck can lure people to Romania by preying on similar social comforts.
Trusting your fellow humans isn't inherently wrong, but people also believe Trump is going to jump-start the rapture. The /s is such a minor addition that costs me almost nothing to deploy and benefits everyone. The negatives to people responding to /s, like getting irrationally upset, are worth it compared to the negatives of assuming everyone has 'common sense', like the methodical social degradation from predators.
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/s' as my sarcasm is plural.
Absolutely not, they're everywhere.
Oh, dear me, no. A lot of people got BANNED from reddit, many of them long before the great Fumbling of the APIs. Who do you think showed up to Lemmy first?
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