I've noticed a weird thing where people think that if you explain Satan it stops being Satan. Of course journalism is horrid for reasons.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
If you want to defeat Satan, having an accurate model of Satan is vitally important.
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Replying to @lackofcheese @ESYudkowsky
In spreading an inaccurate model of Satan with vague and misleading terms like "fake news", you are playing into Satan's hands.
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Replying to @lackofcheese
"Fake news" is vague but seems accurate to me. If it means something misleading, I haven't seen that definition.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
The term "fake news" has become a propaganda tool rather than something that accurately refers to an element of reality.
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Replying to @lackofcheese
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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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
What do you mean when you say "the news is fake"? Replace the symbol with the substance.
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Replying to @lackofcheese
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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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @lackofcheese
In 140, something like, "You are much better off reading a random eyewitness blog than an NYT story"
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @lackofcheese
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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