The result? A fragmented public consciousness where competing realities coexist, each self-reinforcing and resistant to correction. When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative - no matter how detached from reality it is.
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Strong presumption that we had a shared reality, and that it was a correct grasp on reality.
There's a reason we arrive in this pickle today.
In the end, it's all just social engineering.
― Mark Twain
AI threatens to really compound the danger, but it also will threaten autocracies, too. Time is running short on hopes to mitigate these risks.
How can we help this noosphere?!
This.
https://paragraph.xyz/@compossible/a-great-wave-cometh
https://paragraph.xyz/@compossible/a-great-wave-cometh-2-1
note the trailing -2-1
I realize that our Nazis regime wants to shut down this platform.
Seems like such a great idea, but most people don’t consider that it is a two-way street that usually backfires. Other countries have free speech, but we’re smart enough to put civil restrictions on it.
Damn AutoCorrect
And honestly, it looks as though you American do not deserve anything better.
I.o.w.: get the f.. of the world stage.
- Americans are dumber
- America has a two party system. A lot more fragile than us, where parties can be booted out and never seen again. And lunatics (like AfD) are isolated
Unless you making lying less profitable, you can't stop this from happening.
Seems even more relevant today.
https://youtu.be/7hQvBIyOC6Y?si=PoZbqyqxACmWMIg4
I told him to tell them “if you think it can’t happen to you - you haven’t been paying close attention” Don’t let your media be polluted with disinformation
... And no, I'm not joking.
IMO, one of the best ways to disengage from disordered discourse is to shut the phone and get into nature.
The constitution wasn't designed to / cannot deal with situations like this
Legitimate political power requires the ongoing consent of the people
Americans overthrew their government one time
No history book wrongs them for doing so
Now I don't know how to avoid it. Maybe higher morale and smaller income inequality?
http://demos.co.uk/research/epistemic-security-2029-fortifying-the-uks-information-supply-chain-to-tackle-the-democratic-emergency/
Perhaps information can no longer be made as dominant as it once was. I'm not saying it's not still important, ...
You're much too young. Check back with me when you make 79!!!😘
The Rwanda plan in the UK that was pushed through by the Tories just before they were booted out was probably the closest thing to that. UK was very lucky to have elections right then.
social exclusion. People feeling that government isn't 'for them'.
Explicit, tacit or implicit exclusion that creates groups who think 'fuck society, I'll find my sense of belonging elsewhere'.
The most concerning part is that the US elected one such person twice.
https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3ljd6zljnts2z
Pro democracy forces are very bad at unified messaging and that needs to stop.