Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- ramblings:factuality [2024/01/17 22:53] – ultracomfy
+++ ramblings:factuality [2025/04/09 19:54] (current) – ultracomfy
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+~~Title:Factuality~~
 <WRAP column right 18%>
 {{page>Templates:ramblings}}
 </WRAP>
-<fs xx-large>Factuality</fs> is important in many contexts, however this wiki does not go out of its way to verify each and every claim individually. Claims may be wrong or unproven. You may reasonably engage in challenging content and corrections will be made where important. This wiki is meant to be my knowledge base; and like everyone's knowledge, my knowledge, too, will be wrong on a lot of things, if not all things at all times, always ever. That's why I'm putting this stuff //here// and //not// in everyone's face out //there//. While I will uphold that I strive to act as moral as reasonably possible in critical situations, my perspective on things //is//, by the nature of things, biased by the information I've got hold of in the past. Know that by reading this wiki you are acknowledging to be looking deep into an individual's soul, //not// debating back and forth with a writer of educational content. I am always happy to learn and improve and will gladly take a hint when pointed in the right direction, but know that being human and all, I don't have the time or nerve to fact check every single. little. thing until I fall over. Assuming you are the kind of person who wants //that//, then I would point you towards Wikipedia. However, knowing the kind of person you would be if you really wanted this, [[:Wikipedia]] would not be good enough for you either (<wrap em>"THE BIAS!"</wrap> and <wrap em>"EVERYONE CAN WRITE THERE!"</wrap>).
+<fs xx-large>Factuality</fs> is important in many contexts, however this wiki does not go out of its way to verify each and every claim individually. Claims may be wrong or unproven. You may reasonably engage in challenging content and corrections will be made where important. This wiki is meant to be my knowledge base; and like everyone's knowledge, my knowledge, too, will be wrong on a lot of things, if not all things at all times, always ever. That's why I'm putting this stuff //here// and //not// in everyone's face out //there//. While I will uphold that I strive to act as moral as reasonably possible in critical situations, my perspective on things //is//, by the nature of things, biased by the information I've got hold of in the past. Know that by reading this wiki you are acknowledging to be looking deep into an individual's soul, //not// debating back and forth with a writer of educational content. I am always happy to learn and improve and will gladly take a hint when pointed in the right direction, but know that being human and all, I don't have the time or nerve to fact check every single. little. thing until I fall over. Assuming you are the kind of person who wants //that//, then I would point you towards [[:Wikipedia]]. However, knowing the kind of person you would be if you really wanted this, Wikipedia would not be good enough for you either (<wrap em>"THE BIAS!"</wrap> and <wrap em>"EVERYONE CAN WRITE THERE!"</wrap>).
 Anyway, **the point is that I want to make points, not fiddle with the details**. I will try to make conclusions on the basis of as few factual components as possible((The less facts I need to defend or verify, the better. If I can reach and defend a conclusion based on three facts rather than twenty, I will use three.)). I am a strong proponent of the scientific method and want to be corrected when I'm wrong, but I don't want people to make that correction process really, really painful. It seems to be that many people out there get quite the kick from knowing, or at least thinking to know, things better and act unnecessarily smug about it. Don't. Being wrong is part of the way and no drama needs to be made out of it - show me where I went wrong, why that path is wrong, why the other path is right and then //get on with your life//. Even if I end up disagreeing with you and maintaining my position, giving it any additional attention beyond what I just described //is not worth your time//. I am just one more person and there are worse people out there, people with even worse and even more radical ideas and beliefs than mine.