[ExI] Just say no to Google

[John Clark]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:



> *>> **…** if you're interested in finding the truth then you can't expect
>> to find it if you remain inside a bubble that operates in the way that Musk
>> runs TwitterX. *
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> *> TwitterX isn’t the truth.  It contains the truth.*
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*But it doesn't contain the truth about the world's richest man.  *


> *> **TwitterX is huge, so you have plenty of references to other sources,
> more than can be found on either Truth Social or Blue Sky, being 100 times
> bigger than either of them.*
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*Bigger is not necessarily better. You should read the fantasy short story
"The Library of Babel" by Spanish author Jorge Luis Borges, the library
contains every possible arrangement of the 25 letters of an alphabet that
can fit into a 410 page book that contains 40 lines per page and 80
characters per line. The number of characters each book contains is 410 *40
*80 = 1,312,000, which is the number of characters each book has, so there
are 25^1,312,000 books in the library*


*There is a book in Borges's Library which tells you how to cure cancer,
and another one that describes the Theory Of Everything, but for every book
like that there are an astronomical number of books that give bogus cancer
cures and incorrect physics theories, and an even larger number of books
that contain nothing but random letters of gibberish. The books are on
shelves but Borges's Library contains nothing equivalent to a card catalog
and the books are arranged randomly and there are (25^1,312,000)!
different ways of arranging the books of Borges's Library, that's
approximately the number one followed by 10^(33,013,740) zeros. So although
the library contains the ultimate truth it is utterly useless.  *

*> figure out which posters know and which are fools.  Filter the
> goofballs,*


*Easier said than done. There is simply too much information out there to
filter all that information all by yourself, you're going to need help from
someone or someplace that you trust because it has an excellent reputation,
but TwitterX does not have an excellent reputation, for every poster in the
know there are an astronomical number of goofballs and fools. ** So
like **Borges's
Library, if you're interested in finding the truth then **TwitterX is of no
help whatsoever, the signal to noise ratio is much much too low.  *

*It's impossible for me to personally verify that every experiment I read
about in journals like Science and Nature have been perform correctly,
that's the job of the editors of the journals and I trust them because they
have an excellent (but not perfect) reputation, when they do make a mistake
it's a very big deal and they print a retraction. Although to a much lesser
degree I also trust the editors of the Washington Post, the New York Times
and the BBC. To a lesser degree to them I trust the news (not the opinions)
of the Wall Street Journal and CNN. To a much lesser degree to them I trust
Fox. I don't trust Newsmax or One America News or Breitbart or TwitterX at
all because their reputation for telling the truth stinks to high heaven.  *


*John K Clark*




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