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Sunshine only works as a disinfectant when there isn't a massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation. It assumes that people are rational ac
by electrondood 6y ago
Sunshine only works as a disinfectant when there isn't a massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation.
It assumes that people are rational actors, and have good critical thinking skills, and care to apply those skills. None of those is true of Americans en masse.
- kinghajj 6y ago> None of those is true of Americans en masse. None of those is true for people en masse.
- TuringNYC 6y ago>> Sunshine only works as a disinfectant when there isn't a massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation. Agree in general, but where does it stop? What about articles? Web searches? Websites hosted on Google Cloud? What about documented (albeit very limited) cases of voter fraud in favor of Biden? What about documented (albeit very limited) cases of voter fraud in favor of Trump?
- PKop 6y ago>when there isn't a massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation >It assumes that people are rational actors, and have good critical thinking skills, and care to apply those skills This could always be true in reverse, and pretty un-recognizable no? Does not your statement itself reflect some assumption in the ability of people to be rational actors to determine which debate is and isn't true, artificial, astro turfed, propagandized etc. Think of for example the Iraq war push, and evidence provided for it. There are always unknown unknowns, and so your "first principles" cannot be assumed to be true https://commoncog.com/blog/how-first-principles-thinking-fails/ https://commoncog.com/blog/how-first-principles-thinking-fai...
- inglor_cz 6y ago"massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation." Propaganda wasn't born yesterday, neither were people in the past more rational than today.