@scalzi Perhaps there should be a more comprehensive set of warnings given during an extended onboarding process.

A lot of people are only used to conversing with a fairly narrow group of people from the same narrow location. They have never met people who are experts in any field, they have no experience of critical thinking.

And that is how we get a person who works as a Walmart greeter telling someone who worked in the MIT AI lab what they wrote about ChatGPT is stupid.

On sarcasm, I find a lot of people make a sarcastic post and then berate other people for being so stupid to believe anyone could believe what the Republican candidate for Arizona Governor (for instance) said to an adoring crowd of 5,000 to rapturous applause.

I have not flipped the bird yet, I am still on Twitter to see what I can learn from the stress testing. But it is getting mighty difficult to use with my feed being full of people who first respond to one of my posts saying I am obviously stupid and unqualified and then when I respond pointing out I have a degree from the nuclear physics department, Oxford, they start attacking me for waving my credentials around after they just demanded them.

[*] The degree isn't in nuclear physics but actually rather more relevant to discussing the feasibility of new nuclear designs.