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The best solution (IMO of course) is to stop unquestionably believing anything you see, read, or hear. Why most people choose otherwise has saddened me since c

The best solution (IMO of course) is to stop unquestionably believing anything you see, read, or hear. Why most people choose otherwise has saddened me since childhood. The worst solution is to panic and attempt to ban technology like this insuring that only the bad actors will use it. I want everyone down to kids to be able to make fake videos to their little heart's content so we can all internalize this inevitable Black Mirrorization of reality. And your proposed solution is fantastic BTW. Unfortunately, there are more than enough bad actors among us to social engineer those signatures out of otherwise trustworthy agencies and a general lack of intellectual curiosity on the part of most people to even bother to check for such things. Imagine the day we have a video where HRC confesses to the pedophile colony on Mars and coming up next, Trump tells everyone where he buried the bodies, and if people look, there will be bodies there (never mind that they're stolen cadavers). How will people cope with a world like this? It is almost like we need pop art and pop culture to drive this point home before political mass media does it in the worst possible way.

SmooL 8y ago
| The best solution (IMO of course) is to stop unquestionably believing anything you see, read, or hear. Why most people choose otherwise has saddened me since childhood. Agreed, but I think it's been long proven most people do. People hear what they want to hear. Maybe that will change, but I'd say it seems unlikely at this point. | he worst solution is to panic and attempt to ban technology like this insuring that only the bad actors will use it. Very true. | I want everyone down to kids to be able to make fake videos to their little heart's content so we can all internalize this inevitable Black Mirrorization of reality. Increasingly getting there. It only takes one person to make a nice GUI, post it to github. | How will people cope with a world like this? Probably poorly if history has taught us anything. | It is almost like we need pop art and pop culture to drive this point home before political mass media does it in the worst possible way. Very intriguing. Traditionally, art and culture change as a reaction to current affairs, as opposed to a pre-emption. I'm not sure how to pragmatically flip that paradigm.

SmooL 8y ago

| The best solution (IMO of course) is to stop unquestionably believing anything you see, read, or hear. Why most people choose otherwise has saddened me since childhood. Agreed, but I think it's been long proven most people do. People hear what they want to hear. Maybe that will change, but I'd say it seems unlikely at this point. | he worst solution is to panic and attempt to ban technology like this insuring that only the bad actors will use it. Very true. | I want everyone down to kids to be able to make fake videos to their little heart's content so we can all internalize this inevitable Black Mirrorization of reality. Increasingly getting there. It only takes one person to make a nice GUI, post it to github. | How will people cope with a world like this? Probably poorly if history has taught us anything. | It is almost like we need pop art and pop culture to drive this point home before political mass media does it in the worst possible way. Very intriguing. Traditionally, art and culture change as a reaction to current affairs, as opposed to a pre-emption. I'm not sure how to pragmatically flip that paradigm.