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Following the facts, applying the theory, with one eye on the bigger picture. Curious futurist.
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AP: Washington state business license records show that Frakes & Fields have a company called Sovereign Solutions, which featured an “SS” logo with the letters separated by a lightning bolt. Its website advertises
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Heaven. And they landed in California.
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2/ And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please”
- Hannah Arendt
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In its place: an algorithmic chaos where every citizen is a broadcaster, every feed a battleground, and every truth contestable. We didn’t design for this. We didn’t adapt in time. And now the cracks are widening
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If we continue down this path, ignoring the collapse of shared reality, failing to rebuild the systems that stabilise truth, we will see democratic norms erode from the inside out.
Not in a single catastrophic moment, but in a thousand small compromises.
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Key component of this paper is that we measure overconfidence as a general trait. Conspiracy believers aren't merely overconfident in their beliefs (that much is obvious). We argue that people who overrate their abilities in random tasks also tend to believe conspiracies (particularly fringe ones).
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She doesn’t think so (MAGA syndrome)