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Who has the truth though?

• jessriedel 2y ago
  Prediction markets
  • verisimi 2y ago
    Good answer, but isn't that a practical answer, based on consensus? Ie its what people believe is true, but might not be actually true.
    • jessriedel 2y ago
      They are useful for things that become less ambiguous in the future.
  • croes 2y ago
    Lehman Brothers anyone?
• epistasis 2y ago
  Courts.
  • verisimi 2y ago
    Is legal truth, actual truth?
    • ben_w 2y ago
      In the case of the opening story in the link, yes.
    • otterley 2y ago
      It's close enough, and is good enough to generally satisfy our institutions and culture. The standard shouldn't be, and isn't, objective perfection.
• pjc50 2y ago
  It's not usually difficult to determine whether a nuclear reactor does or does not exist.
  • verisimi 2y ago
    The comment I responded to said: > The only way to win here is to make it expensive to produce lies . But which authority can be trusted to provide truth, in order to have a metric on what a lie is? Which authority is even unbiased and impartial?