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> But politically-savvy Kolmogorov types can’t just build a bubble. They have to build a whisper network. The trouble with whisper networks, though, is that th
by adiabatty 9y ago
> But politically-savvy Kolmogorov types can’t just build a bubble. They have to build a whisper network.
The trouble with whisper networks, though, is that they breed poorly-supported misinformation (fake news?) that may or may not have anything to do with whether thunder or lightning comes first.
Seems like if you want to reduce the incentive to create fake-news-breeding whisper networks, you should do what you can to not incentivize whisper-network creation.
- lmm 9y agoWell, obviously the best thing is to ensure that all truths are politically acceptable. But given that we live in a society in which certain truths aren't acceptable, what's the best course that individuals can pursue on the margin?
- dogruck 9y agoWell said. Said another way, society often prefers falsehood over truth, because many times the truth is more immediately painful. (I would argue that in the long term truth is always superior)
- Symmetry 9y agoI worry more that the problem isn't that certain truths aren't acceptable but rather that certain truths aren't generally representable. People in general don't understand probabilities and in political races this means that in practice predictions get simplified down to "Candidate A is certainly going to win" or "It's a toss up!".