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> Sources of information are silo'd into proprietary closed off gardens run by large corporations who only serve their shareholders. Searching for information h
by naasking 4y ago
> Sources of information are silo'd into proprietary closed off gardens run by large corporations who only serve their shareholders. Searching for information has been corrupted by advertisers and the sheer amount of misleading content, that finding reliable sources often feels like searching for a needle in a haystack.
I'm not particularly worried about disinformation or misinformation as long as good information is out there to improve the signal to noise ratio. But you've definitely hit a nail on the head here, good information has value so there are a lot of incentives to wall it off and charge for it. This is the real danger.
- smolder 4y ago> good information has value so there are a lot of incentives to wall it off and charge for it. There's even an incentive there to pollute free sources of good information in order to devalue them relative to proprietary knowledgebases.