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Exactly how I feel. I'm especially worry about trust in historical facts. Renowned and trustworthy institutions, even as they may have their own biases, may not

• cosmojg 4y ago
  I'm optimistic that this will force society to take critical thinking more seriously, treating it like a skill as fundamental as language, rather than lazily relying on shaky concepts like "renown" and "reputation." Our current society often rewards appeals to authority over well-reasoned arguments supported by strong evidence (e.g., the CDC's initial recommendation to avoid masking, despite mounting published evidence, and, later, continued insistence on the prioritization of sterilizing surfaces over mask distribution, again despite mounting published evidence). I'm hopeful that, given a higher noise floor, we'll all do our best to develop better filtering algorithms.