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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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      we may have arrived in an era of permanent fake news, with no possibility of authoritative common ground on anything how do you adapt to/survive in such an info environment?

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    2. Way‏ @wayspurrchen 5 Mar 2018
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      live in a space of semi-permanent quantum information uncollapse; never decide on anything unknowable or unactionable; rely on intuition or insanity for choices that demand action

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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      This is what they want. It sounds cool but is basically incapacitation on most fronts

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    4. Way‏ @wayspurrchen 5 Mar 2018
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      I feel that "they" have unfortunately succeeded. The only real options IMO is a) delegating to localized clusters of experts in your community b) exploring and deciding _everything_ (unfeasible) or c) push out decisions except for those that have high obviousness:survival ratios

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    5. Way‏ @wayspurrchen 5 Mar 2018
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      had to cut out parenthetical for "they" but I take that to mean all conflicting sources of (dis?)information. examples of good obviousness:survival ratios are global warming and smoking, whereas deciding to use fluoride-free toothpaste is less so, and flat earthing negative

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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      “They” is not fair gurative. It’s literal bad actors with enough resources to swamp info channels with bots etc

      1:45 PM - 5 Mar 2018
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        1. Way‏ @wayspurrchen 5 Mar 2018
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          ah, gotcha--if we're talking about only intentionally bad actors then the situation is different. I think there may be automated ML tools on the way that help validate citations, studies, credibility, in the (hopefully near) future, packed into a handy chrome extension

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