Carrier is right a lot because he knows how to research. The link to a primer on that is within this article. This is shorter than most of his posts, and doesn’t bother with technical details because the details aren’t that difficult with AI.
https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/38652
I should mention, he doesn’t allow AI in his comments. Something we might consider if this forum traffic ever picks up again.
Also note, within the AI post, be links to the related post of how to do your own research. In that, he explains how that phrase has come to be associated with conspiracy theorist, but they don’t research critically, instead:
The conspiracist plays on a truth—that we should not just gullibly trust what experts say, but vet whether they are telling us the truth or even reliably discerning it in the first place—to push a falsehood: that we should never trust what experts say.
Well that’s a heck of a bedtime story.
It sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. He makes a lot of sense. Don’t think I want to invest much time checking his links, we’ll see soon enough.
We’ve screwed ourselves in so many directions.
If it’s global finances build on puffed up bllshit or a catastrophic storm that blindsides your neighborhood and livelihood.
.. or the BD Syndrome of idiotic billion dollars projects that are fundamentally pointless squandering of precious resources.
When it comes to what people and societies’ need to survives, but so it is. Our apathy brought this upon ourselves.
How can one not, on some psychological level, have to confront the reality of being a deadman walking syndrome, since we don’t know when our particular corner of the world will collapse and crush us.
So far as I’m concerned, what I have left is embracing my today with all the awareness and gratitude I can muster. Especially given the fact of being the Chicago kid who arrived where he dreamed of getting to.
