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It's also not particularly insightful to point out the complete irrationality of what's happening. It has nothing to do logic and evidence, and everything to do with exposure to well-engineered disinformation. You won't fight that with logical arguments and sick burns.https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1428903827273654285 …
Propaganda works, and those people are jacked into extremely well-optimized propaganda delivery systems. It's really as simple as that.
I see many people going, "ok, so propaganda works super well, I guess this is our world now, too bad, we'll just have to learn to live with covid and violent extremism" This is not a constructive attitude.
Imagine a company was dumping poisonous waste in the lake you use for drinking water, and making millions off of it. Would you just throw your hands in the air and say, "ok, arsenic is bad for our health, too bad, I guess this is our world now, nothing we can do here"?
And remember: the problem isn't "free speech", and never was. "Disinformation is a side effect of free speech" is a lie that the polluters want you to believe. The actual problems are the delivery mechanisms and those that exploit them.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1416939576317267971?s=19 …
"we can't fight disinformation because it would be censorship" is roughly on par with "we can't do anything about deadly pollution because it would interfere with freedom of entreprise" as a bad take.
humans have no antidote to a compelling narrative. especially if it aligns with what you believe or want to believe. I have seen humor be a decent repellant.
So short of marginalizing these people from the rest of society, what options are there?
I’ve been asking the same thing, how do we de-program radicalized humans?
Well said
Can we quantify propaganda and tax it?
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