It may not be chance that some of the first efforts by tech companies to censor "misinformation" have gotten it wrong. This is a harder problem than most people realize. Impossibly hard, at the edges. And this is not the sort of problem where the edges don't matter.
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The amount of misinformation present in our society is one of our root problems. How can a people advance when they know nothing?
The problem is not that misinformation is present in our society, but that people believe it. E.g. the solution to people believing the Monte Carlo fallacy is not to ban the mention of it. It's to teach people about probability.
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The problem is even more difficult than just the fact that people believe things that are wrong. The problem is that it's not always clear what the actual truth is, and oftentimes two intelligent and informed individuals can simply disagree about *basic interpretation* of facts
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The place in which it's most evident is the extreme case of academics debating results of some experiment. Essentially, the *most informed* people on a particular topic disagree about the truth, and only 20 years down the line it becomes very clear that some were simply wrong.
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That's reasonable, but the way that the MSM jerks people around and envelopes them in misinformation allows them to pick a team and feel a sense of purpose. The problem is two-fold, not only to teach, but to also provide people a means of purpose.
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I'd argue that amplification of misinformation is a big part of the problem.. People on sites like this are inundated with bad information -- there's simply too much for most people to parse, and it's compounded by the fact that algorithms elevate "provocative" content
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"It's to teach people..." Amen to that.
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