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Reminds me of current day politics. Lots of public statements which are obviously false, and you would think the politician knows they are false, but utter the

Reminds me of current day politics. Lots of public statements which are obviously false, and you would think the politician knows they are false, but utter them anyway because they also know lot of their supporters buy what they are saying anyway. Now politicians also know something about their supporters so they will adapt their statements to what they think they can get away with it. But, I wonder if this leads to a two-party-system where one party attracts stupid followers and another attracts the smarter ones? In terms of AI, we might see LLMs specialized to attract more stupid audience and others meant to attract those who appreciate correctness and facts.

saaaaaam 2mo ago
>Lots of public statements which are obviously false, and you would think the politician knows they are false, but utter them anyway because they also know lot of their supporters buy what they are saying anyway. Yes, we truly live in a “post truth” era. > But, I wonder if this leads to a two-party-system where one party attracts stupid followers and another attracts the smarter ones? I think all political parties aim at the lowest common denominator.
ruszki 2mo ago
The alt-right party in Hungary - Fidesz - at least since 2006, and the Republican Party since at least Trump, definitely targeted people who are fine with a broken belief systems, in other words, they are fine with continuous cognitive dissonance. In case of Hungary, in the past 20 years, they moved contradictions inside an article, to inside a paragraph to inside a single word. Trump is on the single word/expression level since 2016 for sure: “alternative facts”.