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My startup was founded on technology to authenticate and provide provenance for digital media content. The overwhelming response from the market, investors, et

My startup was founded on technology to authenticate and provide provenance for digital media content. The overwhelming response from the market, investors, etc was “We like what you’re doing and this is all well and good but the ship has sailed”. I think the real hot take here (and they danced around this one) is essentially the partisanship. For almost everywhere this really matters a good chunk of people are more likely to believe as real whatever aligns with their pre-conceived notions, political leanings, whatever. Essentially, real is whatever my tribe says is real.

prox 4y ago
Your startup is probably to early. As in, at some point it might be a necessity. And it’s been studied that we believe something first, and then apply reasoning to it. We skew towards our preferred bias by belief.
- kkielhofner 4y ago
  Thanks, I appreciate that but the experience was eye opening. Speaking of which… Get on Facebook and watch people swap around things that are so blatantly and obviously fake. In the words of one potential investor: “no one cares”. Or, to repeat a phrase you may have heard “fake news”. “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it” - Jonathan Swift, 1710
  - baq 4y ago
    Investors are dumb. See the list of people who have ftx truckloads of money. Sometimes what’s needed is a couple good sentences with create the appropriate spark in their imagination. If you can sell truth as a service, you have potentially a total addressable market of half the planet’s population.
  - prox 4y ago
    On things like facebook usually our “guard” is down. We just assume at some point that if someone feeds it to us, it’s vetted already. Usually a lot of context is missing with for instance a scary headline. In that sense context tools could also be great to have. Something that exposes connections between information. I don’t believe no one cares tbh, but there are those who are resistant to change in bias.

prox 4y ago

Your startup is probably to early. As in, at some point it might be a necessity. And it’s been studied that we believe something first, and then apply reasoning to it. We skew towards our preferred bias by belief.

kkielhofner 4y ago
Thanks, I appreciate that but the experience was eye opening. Speaking of which… Get on Facebook and watch people swap around things that are so blatantly and obviously fake. In the words of one potential investor: “no one cares”. Or, to repeat a phrase you may have heard “fake news”. “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it” - Jonathan Swift, 1710
- baq 4y ago
  Investors are dumb. See the list of people who have ftx truckloads of money. Sometimes what’s needed is a couple good sentences with create the appropriate spark in their imagination. If you can sell truth as a service, you have potentially a total addressable market of half the planet’s population.
- prox 4y ago
  On things like facebook usually our “guard” is down. We just assume at some point that if someone feeds it to us, it’s vetted already. Usually a lot of context is missing with for instance a scary headline. In that sense context tools could also be great to have. Something that exposes connections between information. I don’t believe no one cares tbh, but there are those who are resistant to change in bias.