@ESYudkowsky The media is not Satan. It's a loosely-shackled paperclip maximiser operating on friendliness-aligned hardware.
The "propaganda" is teaching people the true fact that the news is fake. That the meme is being spread for reasons doesn't make it false.
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What do you mean when you say "the news is fake"? Replace the symbol with the substance.
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In 140 characters? Try my Facebook posts, it'll come up eventually if you don't want to trawl older posts.
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In 140, something like, "You are much better off reading a random eyewitness blog than an NYT story"
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Or "your model of the world will be most accurate if you imagine the media as outright lying whenever they please" rather than trying... 1/2
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...to decode how or whether they managed to trawl quotes from far out of context, selectively interview fake experts, etc. 2/2
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Also, I wonder about the extent to which people are being "taught".
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One thing I observe is many people using the notion of "fake news" as an excuse to retreat even further into self-selected bubbles.
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Rather than apply the lesson they learned about "fake news" it to all media content, they apply it only to the Other Side.
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Of course. But it disrupts the sense that the media get to determine social truth and thereby strips an evil force of some of its power.
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This basically doesn't fit on Twitter, take it to my FB the next time it comes up there.
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Sure. But if you want a visceral example of the danger of inaccurate models of "Satan", have a look at the 'American Pravda' videos.
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Note the obvious propaganda techniques, and note the ratios of upvotes to downvotes on those videos.
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Satan doesn't care whether you know he exists or not.
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