Knowledge has never been a single global thing. It's always been individualized, and in the context of groups, the important question is "how long does it take

Knowledge has never been a single global thing. It's always been individualized, and in the context of groups, the important question is "how long does it take someone to find information which is useful to them?". With regards to search engines we've been in decline for a few years now. It's not just you, the results are worse. > All signs point to this strengthening the value of curation and authenticated sources. This is the solution. Knowledge is a web of trust. The only root authority is you the individual. "Experts" and "authorities" are just heuristics. The widespread error that many are making is this: If there is a single objective reality, then curation can happen globally/objectively, not individually/subjectively. What we need are more mechanisms for individual curation. A user should be able to inspect and understand the chain of believability, from one of their own highly vetted one hop experts, to a distant influencer, public official, or other source of (mis)information.