On 06/26/2015 03:21 PM, Steve Smith wrote:> Maybe a restatement of Glen's point
would be:
Misinformation and disinformation are a given:
How we manage our trust is the challenge.
Well, not quite. I would have said that trust is an unreachable limit. (And
distrust should also be an unreachable limit -- there is information to be
gained even from the most random looking sources -- eg the cosmic background.)
On 06/26/2015 03:34 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Are the trustworthy sources playing a long game? The defection will come, it
is just a matter of how many people are sucked-in before it does..
Yeah but that process will tend toward the least common denominator. It's why
we end up with silly infotainment news programs that emphasize the weather
forecast and cute pictures of kids on their birthday. To say anything useful
literally _means_ to say something that is more likely to cause someone to
defect ... even if the defection is because the audience doesn't have the
attention span required.
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⇔ glen
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