Comment by perlgeek
6 days ago
If you don't act against disinformation, you get a world that is spammed with so many statements that it's impossible for the average consumer to assess the truth of any of them.
Is that what you want?
If yes, why? If not, what's your approach?
Let people be wrong
That's great until it convinces them to make real-world decisions that affect the rest of us. For instance, vaccine misinformation talked a lot of people against getting safe (or at least safer than the illness), effective (not perfect, but effective) immunity shots for COVID. Those people are dead from being wrong.
I think someone's an idiot for denying the moon landings, but their ignorance doesn't directly affect my ability to stay alive and health. Some misinformation is worse than others.
Judges are fallible, therefore a judicial system is impossible!
The corrosive effect of suppressing potential misinformation is far worse than allowing it to spread.
I already stated my approach. Let speech be met by more speech in return. Consumers can assess the credibility of each.
But your approach results in someone who can't even conceive of the truth being identifiable. It doesn't seem like a great way to run a society.
Having the power to determine truth does not seem like a great way to run a society even if it gets you some easy wins on other fronts.
It might work at first and be effective for some time in the same way that a dictator can "get things done" but there is no free lunch.
Eventually you will get evil dictators, power hungry arbitrators of truth. It will bite you. It is only a question of when. It might be years or generations. The only winning move is not to play. Don't concentrate the power in the first place.
I am unable to connect your sentence to what I said.
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> Consumers can assess the credibility of each.
Assuming intelligence is normally distributed, then what's the plan for the bottom 50% here?
As stated.
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> Consumers can assess the credibility of each.
I ain't doing all that work. I'm picking whatever I already believe in.
/s but only kind of. That's how most people think. They aren't enlightened like you.