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> should be called out and their opinions down-weighted heavily But thinking about this from a loosely signal-process-y angle, once you have a BS signal in one
by indigochill 5y ago
> should be called out and their opinions down-weighted heavily
But thinking about this from a loosely signal-process-y angle, once you have a BS signal in one channel that routes to a a particular set of minds, how does one route the corrective signal to that same set of minds (as opposed to, say, just your local friends who already agree with you anyway)? And even supposing you do, those minds are already programmed to process these signals in particular ways that probably means they're predisposed to accepting one or the other before either signal even arrives.
The answer to this has always been to address the root of the problem, the preprogramming, through (relatively) uniform mass education, because that's the one and only place where you can (relatively) uniformly cram ideas into everyone's brain before they scatter to the winds and begin fancying themselves "free thinkers".
- sokoloff 5y agoIf you integrate over time, an erroneous signal (a stray bit of noise) can still result in a few minds here and there having the wrong information. That’s not ideal, but it’s unavoidable and not catastrophic so long as the source of the bad information systemically has reduced amplitude next time. Right now, sources of bad information get systemically louder, not quieter, over time. That’s way worse.