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One of the most cruel things evolution did to us is that we constantly seek meaning, order, correctness, where there are none to speak of.

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I'd argue that the ability to unite people by assigning meaning onto things, places, and ideas is the single reason why humans have been so successful in advancing civilization to where it is today.

Edit: eschew -> assign

Sure, but now it's actually DE-volving our society in form of QAnon and religious "interpretations", and technology here is not blameless in the least.

Pedant note: eschew means ‘to go without’. You probably meant ‘assigning’.

Whoops, thanks

That's precisely the problem. It's very useful, when it's useful. Which leaves us spinning in circles when it's not.

It would be impossible for you to say this (circular) sentence and call something a “problem” if you didn’t think that there was some basis of right/wrong, which contradicts your top-level comment.

See, this shouldn't cause a deep sorrowful void within me, but it does.

How do you know that there isn't meaning, order and correctness if you don't search for it?

There are very few situations where you can definitely say that there isn't meaning, order and correctness as opposed to not knowing if you are just too dumb to find them.

Well, with the internet we don't need to do it anymore. Everyone has lost the battle to organize the internet, and it is now the helm of run away AI algorithms. And the same is happening to other areas which are controlled by AI and "big data".

That awfully sounds anti-knowledge. Humans didn’t use to think that there was an order or correctness to all the facts that fall under science and mathematics today.

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