Markets don't work for everything. Truth is one place where they fail.
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Replying to @paulg
There is a bigger market for lies than the truth, because lies are so much less constrained.
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When the truth is boring, lies can be exciting. When the truth contradicts your beliefs, lies can confirm them.
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Replying to @paulg
But while spreading more lies by introducing more market forces into journalism, the internet has also made it easier to find the truth.
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Replying to @paulg
The result will be increasing knowledge inequality. The deluded and the well-informed will both become more so.
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The search for truth is time-consuming. The leisure it demands is increasingly a luxury good. And this is by no means entirely accidental.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @paulg
The average American watches 5 hours of TV a day
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And that, too, is not unrelated to the phenomenon to which I sought obliquely to point. It was all foreseen long ago http://bit.ly/2sNFubz
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