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I don't think it will change much. I think for claims that you think are important to determine an objective truth value for (like who the President of the U.S
by tshaddox 4y ago
I don't think it will change much.
I think for claims that you think are important to determine an objective truth value for (like who the President of the U.S. is), your determinism mechanism is based on trusting sources you deem reliable and looking for broad agreement among many sources you deem to be independent. You're probably not just looking at a single sourceless video of Ronald Reagan behaving as if he's the president and believing that claim because the video couldn't possibly have been faked.
And for other claim that you don't think are important to determine an objective truth value for, I don't think you need very high-fidelity evidence anyway. For example, people have no trouble believing claims that corroborate their closely-held ideologies even with very low-fidelity fraudulent evidence, or even claims made with no attempt whatsoever to provide even fraudulent evidence!
- arcticfox 4y agoI agree with your framework, but what happens when the sources I deem reliable can't trust their own eyes? A lot of people point to Photoshop not breaking truth, but in my experience, we simply rely on video instead. When I served on a grand jury, essentially all of the non-testimony evidence I saw was video, and it was incredibly compelling. Neutering the reliability of that evidence will hurt.