Fact checking is a worse-than-useless approach to counter programming bullshit. Brandolini bullshit assymmetry principle —“It takes 10x more effort to refute bullshit than to produce it” — applies doubly to fact-checking, so like 100x. You need better refutation models.
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How would you script an Alec Baldwin SNL sketch for this? Like this perhaps: “the cupboard was bare, the shelves were empty, even the desk drawers in the Oval Office desk were empty. Obama used up the pencils. I had to buy my own pencils. Took me 3 years to do that.”
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It’s not the best joke, which is why I’m not an SNL writer, but you get the idea. You can’t fact-check a slippery mix of facts, figures, and figures of speech.
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For b, there’s no substitute for investigative digging, whistleblowing, etc. Every big thing he stonewalls on, he also runs a project of interference, obstruction, intimidation, etc. So far he’s won by the “absence of evidence” logic (absence he’s engineered). He’s blameless.
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Trump by himself is unimportant now. He’s done his damage for his handler Mitch, and is already in the trash can of history. But he’s installed a culture of bullshitting that so far has no cure or vaccine 4 years in. Time to build a refutation playbook that actually works.
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And yes, this thread is bullshit too. Takes some bullshit to fight bullshit. White-hat bullshit like Alec Baldwin’s impressions. https://twitter.com/karlmaeser/status/1252390816795918336?s=21 …https://twitter.com/KarlMaeser/status/1252390816795918336 …
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