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New companies and technologies will be invented to solve this problem. Every problem has a solution. You are falling into the same trap that has caught humans s
by seibelj 7y ago
New companies and technologies will be invented to solve this problem. Every problem has a solution. You are falling into the same trap that has caught humans since the dawn of man. The printing press, the car, the internet, and now “deep fakes” will cause hand wringing but will not destroy us. Just give it time.
- guelo 7y agoYou don't know if your extrapolation will be true. Maybe this tech is different. There's no doubt that it will change society. It is a revolution. It's impossible to predict the outcome of revolutions.
- 2sk21 7y agoOnly if there is money to be made in filtering out fakes. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that most people will not pay for news in general.
- glenstein 7y ago>The printing press, the car, the internet These all came with real tradeoffs and we've just accepted them. The printing press and the internet, in their own ways, sped up the world and shortened attention spans. Cars changed cities. The benefits have been there, but we've engaged with or ignored the harms posed by changes in different ways, and the same unconscious trade is going to happen again.
- kevingadd 7y agoDid we solve car accidents yet? I mean, people are working on it with self-driving cars, but we've been paying a death tax for the proliferation of automobiles for something like a hundred years now. Big pile of dead bodies waiting for that one new technological solution... Instead we've been chipping away at the massive set of problems cars created one at a time, because we allowed the problems to appear and we got used to cars. Meanwhile, new problems appear that we can't easily fix - people still look at their phones while driving and that wasn't an issue ~20 years ago.