Comment on Information based on lived experience is far less valued than a quick Google answer.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoYou’re describing qualia which are necessarily subjective. These accounts are not helpful whether you get them from Google or anywhere else.
Anecdotes may be interesting, but on the whole they are not as useful as objective answers.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s my exact point, not everything has an objective correct answer, something Google is only able to provide. Creating a sufficient answer is based on the subjective experience one gains or is able to glean from others.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
No?
If there’s no objective, correct answer to a question then the point is moot. If you’re getting something out of some individual’s subjective answer it’s based on the want to build a relationship or gain understanding of that person which inherently has nothing to do with the question itself.
That’s fine and all, but not really what I understand your original question to be asking. People have experiences, and those experiences are theirs: they can’t give them to you. If you like hearing about it anyway, cool, but you might as well read a poem.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Talking to people and hearing their stories and experiences has no value to you?
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
There is value in talking to people, but that has nothing to do with a question or situation you might Google or look up in a book. These are fundamentally different things.
Subjective information is inherently less valuable than objective information for trying to learn something unless you are writing a survey paper. If you want to have a chat to combat loneliness or try to better understand your grandmother you’re not answering a question so you wouldn’t look it up anyway. If you’re googling what it feels like to make a roux you are probably not neurotypical.