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How am I dangerously wrong? C'mon don't throw that out there and then not back it up.
by s_m_t 10y ago
How am I dangerously wrong? C'mon don't throw that out there and then not back it up.
- chc 10y agoBecause you refuse to distinguish between an attack on your mind and a good-faith but imperfect attempt to share genuine information. These are two very different things, and treating one as the other damages your ability to reason about the information you get from that source. More insidiously, it is likely to lead you to treat everything as somewhere more towards the middle of the two than it actually is (e.g. "everything is propaganda, but it contains some truth I can glean and some parts I need to reject"), thus offering an "in" for the dedicated attacker while refusing some good information that could help you course-correct. More broadly, it serves to normalize propaganda by treating a deliberate attempt to trick us as if it were the same thing as an honest but maybe imperfect attempt at sharing information.