That is what fake news is: propaganda that does not conform to the editorial line?!
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Replying to @Plinz
There are lies of commission and lies of omission. The latter are also lies & inevitable with any editorial line. This makes them invisible.
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Replying to @vakibs
Do you know of any open knowledge organization project that does better than Wikipedia wrt aiming for truth, btw?
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Replying to @Plinz
No. But I think the wiki model is fundamentally flawed. We need to rethink this. We need to support multiple living hypotheses.
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Replying to @vakibs
epistemic pluralism is often necessary, but it is not intrinsically virtuous
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Replying to @Plinz
As Churchill would say, it is the best of all evils. I hate Churchill but I agree with him on this :)
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Replying to @Plinz
I mean the least evil option is democracy with multiple living hypotheses and settling disputes gradually, probably taking forever.
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Replying to @vakibs
Democracy is a tool for legitimizing decisions, not for making good ones
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Replying to @Plinz
I understand this viewpoint. But I don't subscribe to it. I am not yet cynical enough :)
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I am not cynical. I think you mistake democracy for a value (an axiomatic good), so you cannot analyze it
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