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How else do you combat Poe's law
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
So... make an echochamber and have everyone circlejerk each other...
Look while it sounds bad, you really cant have many worthwhile discussions if you only talk to the people you agree with, (ie. Like minded individuals) you need to talk to people that dont agree with you and that means that is very likely they dont think like you and things like sarcasm can go over their heads and think you are being genuine while you are not. So i say stick wit the " /s" thing
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.
You don't write the opposite of what you mean. And Poe's law isn't a problem to be combatted, it's a gift.
Oh so just don't use sarcasm ever. Wow why didn't I think of that?
Now you're getting it!