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Indeed. You can't know what's truly true (istina) without some crucible in which free ideas flow, to enable the discourse which moves toward that truth. Free sp
by kortex 10y ago
Indeed. You can't know what's truly true (istina) without some crucible in which free ideas flow, to enable the discourse which moves toward that truth. Free speech is quintessential to escaping the pravda, truthiness-es and alt-facts fed to us. The side effect is that some alt-facts find a safe space to thrive and multiply. I don't think this can be avoided, I think it ultimately is a feature of nature.
To use a machine learning analogy, all the pravda out there - everyone's relative truths - is your training set. If you limit your training set, you lose some ability to generalize to the real world.
- 131012 10y agoI love the analogy. I would precise that by doing this kind of ML training, you would learn a lot about those speaking, but not so much about what they talk about.
- 131012 10y agoI love the analogy. I would precise that by doing this kind of ML training, you would learn a lot about those speaking, but not so much about what they talk about.
- SideburnsOfDoom 10y ago> discourse which moves toward that truth Can you demonstrate that the discourse does move towards truth? > all the pravda out there - everyone's relative truths - "relative truth", eh? Is vaccine denial is relative truth? How about "Sandy hook was staged?" how about "Obama is a foreign muslim, and he founded ISIS" ? I know that these beliefs come from a place of ignorance, anger and fear, but weaponising ignorance and fear is not a "discourse which moves toward that truth" and these memes are not a "relative truth", they are a near totality of the opposite. And yet they affect the fate of nations. I certainly don't have answers, but I know that you first have to ask the right questions, and that this manifesto no longer does.