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In Indigenous agriculture, the practice is to modify the plants to fit the land. As a result, there are many varieties of corn domesticated by our ancestors, all adapted to grow in many different places. Modern agriculture, with its big engines and fossil fuels, took the opposite approach: modify the land to fit the plants, which are frighteningly similar clones.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually [reduces the effectiveness of collective action](https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10095997?ref=404media.co). The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
404 Media
If you are talking to a human and he or she doesn’t understand you, you might make your question simpler. That is exactly the wrong tack to take with ChatGPT. You will get a better result by making your question more detailed and complex.
ChatGPT: What Kinds of Questions Get Good Answers? A User's Guide - Bloomberg
Tyler Cowen
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