I run a small VPS host and rely on PayPal for payments, mainly because (a) most VPS customers pay that way if you aren’t AWS or GoDaddy and (b) very good fraud protection. My prior venture had quite a bit of chargebacks from Stripe so it went PP-only also.
My dad told me I should “reduce the processing fees” and inaccurately cited that ChatGPT told him PayPal has 5% fees when it really has 3-3.5% fees (plus 49 cents). Yet he insisted 5% was the charge.
Yes, PayPal sucks but ChatGPT sucks even more. When I was a child he said Toontown would ruin my brain, yet LLMs are ruining his even more.
Every boomer seems like that: “You shouldn’t trust anyone without fact-checking.”
30 years later: “Let’s trust every shoe salesman and ChatGPT, they are my new friends.”
A lot of people say “you can’t trust anything you read/see/hear” not because they are actually skeptical of their sources, but because it’s a thought-terminating cliche that allows them to continue disbelieving what they want to disbelieve and cherry pick what makes them feel vindicated or righteously angry.
Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug. It turns out almost everyone believes they’re a skeptic, and everyone suffers from confirmation bias.
Except you and I. And any of you reading this. We know the truth, of course. Don’t trust anyone that tells you otherwise.
Yes, of course. We are also the ONLY people who can safely do [unsafe thing] and anyone else doing it is a moron.
I agree with everything you said. And I get the tone at the end. There are certainly things I believe that are wrong. But while I obviously still have biases, I also have a crippling fear of telling someone something wrong. So generally I at the least won’t say something to someone else unless I’ve triple confirmed it’s correct.
Which is also how I know I believe things that are wrong, because I’ve looked into something before telling it to people and found it was wrong. I don’t intentionally believe wrong things. But based on that I know there must still be some.