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What I think is worrying is the fact that we can't answer the question: "are we at war?" reliably. It's quite possible we are. And we don't know we are. What ca
by raarts 5y ago
What I think is worrying is the fact that we can't answer the question: "are we at war?" reliably. It's quite possible we are. And we don't know we are. What can be the consequences?
We do know that 'disinformation' runs rampant on the internet and it's becoming increasingly hard and exhausting to find the facts. There are fact-checkers but increasingly they are becoming biased and need to be fact-checked by new fact-checkers. Deepfakes are getting better and better and very soon any video can be fake without it being detectable.
Half of the populating already doesn't trust the media, and the media themselves are thriving by clicks (and thus feed fear and anger). I'm worried where this is leading.
- ethbr0 5y agoThis isn't some new phenomenon. It happened when the USSR detonated their first nuclear device. And it'll be hashed over again for disinformation and everything else. "How is this war different from that war?" "How do we handle attribution?" "How do we monitor pre-emptively and deter?" Bioterrorism is the big worry -- no other disaster grows, much less at exponential scale.