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Then again, as suggests, instead of lamenting the #EpistemicCrisis and decrying #EpistemicVandalism, maybe we should try to appreciate the upside in the end of “epistemic monoculture”?
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The only additional key point is that arguably the deepest epistemic damage which proliferating #deepfakes will produce is not that they will enable the propagation of falsehoods, but rather that they will enable the baldfaced denial of truths.
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I don’t think it will evolve this way. This is open-loop extrapolation and people are already starting to adjust responses (cf: Covington high case). Crywolf effects. When you’re conditioned to distrust a signal source you don’t just freeze in stasis. You adapt.
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The thing is, FUD created by a bad actor goes away when the bad actor leaves the scene. But FUD created by technology agency expansion is a cry wolf story with no specific untrustworthy shepherd boy for the villagers to tag. So behaviors shift.
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Older generations circle wagons around their ingroup epistemes. Younger ones adopt new mitigating behaviors that are a mix of more conservatism (default skeptics, checking up on snopes) and operating off a smaller knowledge base (Talebian strategies).
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