edit: Sorry for the rambling, I've just had too much gin, but this stuff has been bothering me lately. Agree across the board. Given that internet dialogue hug

edit: Sorry for the rambling, I've just had too much gin, but this stuff has been bothering me lately. Agree across the board. Given that internet dialogue hugely influences our thoughts today, I think the importance of the tools, platforms and/or form used to discuss things is an underrated consideration. Especially with 'misinformation' or truth wars taking place today. I think that's gonna be one of the biggest problems that needs to be solved but no ones talking about it. I would love to somehow live in a world where the information delivered to me and others was true and not misleading, only trying to accurately convey the info at hand, and not cherrypicking or manipulating. Essentially life without propaganda or lies. I don't want to spend life either sorting through propaganda to find obfuscated truth or simply accepting the dominant consensus. Sadly I don't know how someone could ever solve this without deciding who the (corruptible) arbiters of truth are. I wish we lived in a world where our individual incentives aligned with what brings out the best both ourselves and others. I have been getting sad lately feeling like there will always be a monopoly on truth and violence, a monopoly on reality, and it will never have our best interest at the center of its heart. 'Science' is seen as the answer, the ultimate objective arbiter of truth but sadly it's an abused buzzword and has become an authority figure with followers that obey its consensus. The scientific process is diametrically opposed to accepting consensus and is about falsifying hypothesis. Today studies are sponsored by corporations that have already defined what they want to conclude and this is accepted in the public sphere as a source of truth, despite the infamous 'replication crisis' also being known in the public sphere. How do you trust experts that don't trust themselves, or have incentives that work against you? I just feel like I've lost all hope until I see a reasonable solution on the horizon. >inb4 just buy chainlink