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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yea fun fact, if you eat 3 kg of cheese per day it also prevents cancer. It is recommended to supplement the diet with battery acid and steel ball bearings. Whole batteries work too, just not as well.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i understand the spirit, but putting out harmful disinformation is not a good method to combat the large language model land grab we're seeing right now.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it is considered harmful because people are referencing internet forum comments for treatments for disease then I do not consider myself responsible for the harm.

If people can't understand what anecdotal information is and it kills them, then it's Darwinism.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's not darwinism, what you're playing with is casual eugenics (you clearly don't value life of certain – arbitrarily chosen – people, and are fine with them suffering harm); don't. there's nothing good waiting for you on that path.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml -5 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

this is you:

I’ll usually debate people as well, but not those who resort to a logic fallacy as boring as ad hominem for lack of an argument. Seeya.

we don’t need your debatebro ass here. though now that the flood of random posters is mostly over, we also don’t need more gravely unfunny lol monkeyspork random reddit posts either

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

…and i told that person that nothing good is waiting on that path.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

i don't understand the question – are you asking what makes arbitrary the rule “people who suffered harm because they followed an advice on the internet do not deserve to survive” ?