Have you ever believed something that turned out to be wrong? (page 2)

John_Mann

2. I believe the "singularitarian" view of the future taken over by strong artificial intelligence is probably correct.

I believed in that too (for 3 years).

They are wrong in a fundamental way.

This article helped to open my eyes:

https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/aeon.co/amp/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

- JW's

- Baptist church

- Spiritism (Allan Kardec)

- Nihilism

- Atheism

- Scientism

- Buddhism (not wrong, but very incomplete.)

- Agnosticism (incomplete, must be temporary to be self consistent)

- Political left (socialism)

bohm

Peak oil, I had forgotten about that. I used to believe that 100%, it seemed very clear.

Before that, I saw a documentary on TV that argued HIV originated in Africa ca. 1950 due to improper use of monkey tissue as a growth substance in a vaccination program against Polio. I used to believe that as well.

wozza

I once believed my first marraige would last ,and when I became a witness with my wife I believed the Watchtower advice would keep our marraige even more stable...............stupid young fool I was

shepherdless

For a long time I thought anthropogenic climate change was all a load of nonsense. I was assisted in that view because i tend to be suspicious of anything put forward by "greenies", and there was a friend of the family who was a leading oceanographer (now deceased) who seemed to be a skeptic. Also, I know someone well who has some scientific credentials (not a lot, but more than the average person) who is an avid denier and talks a convincing line.

At one stage I read a lot of arguments on a site similar to this, which gave me a head start to do my own critical research. I won't go into details, but I am fairly certain now that anthropogenic climate change is really occurring. Some of the suggested solutions I still don't agree with.

Ucantnome

I believed i was quite clever

slimboyfat

Rainbow Troll that's an interesting list of beliefs. Why do you think the moon landing never happened?

bohm why was peak oil wrong? It seemed to make sense.

shepherdless I'm not sure about climate change. It might be right in broad outline, but probably wrong in lots of details. There's too much confidence about such things where it's not warranted. Which is not the same as saying right wing anti-science people have got it right.

ILoveTTATT according to David Trobisch the basic idea is that an editor (possibly Polycarp) collected the books of the NT into a canonical edition in the middle of the second century. This was when the divine name was removed and nomina sacra introduced as standard. We don't have any fragments of NT with Kyrios passages from before 150 CE. What we do have is a number of LXX fragments from the period that use the divine name.

bohm

sbf: my understanding is that peak oil was correct insofar as known reserves were concerned but new technologies such as horizontal drilling, fracking/the use of chemicals to increase yield and new reserves such as shale oil/gas made the predictions obsolete.

James Mixon

Ucantnome" Yes I also believed I was knowledgeable when it comes to the Bible (as a JW), oh boy was I wrong. The more I learned the dummer I became.

cofty

I used to believe that the British Monarchy was an anachronism.

God save the Queen.

bohm

Another thing I used to believe: That renewable energy sources (wind, solar, hydro) could not be counted on as providing a significant part of the worlds energy needs but we must go nuclear. I *think* this is false today (or at least I don't know it is true anymore), but at some point, I hope to revisit some of my previous sources to see what has changed.

Have you ever believed something that turned out to be wrong?

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