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Yuval Noah Harari (author of Sapiens) was on @bankless a few months ago, talking about why truth is so hard to find these days. I tend to agree that the antidote to bad speech is more speech, but Harari makes a few points I keep thinking about: (Paraphrasing from memory) - we think about the time after printing press as a time of enlightenment but scams and lies spread much faster and for a long time (did he say 200 years?) - truth is expensive, hard to get to, and can be messy, inconvenient and not entertaining. Truth can hurt - lies are cheap, are entertaining, make us feel good. So of course lies will spread faster and take over social media Eventually, maybe tens or hundreds of years, I believe AI and social media will be a huge benefit to society. But today, well, we live in messy time. https://www.bankless.com/will-ai-kill-democracy-yuval-noah-harari

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imho yuval is a charlatan. luckily we have varying models of trust assumption from 1/1 to 1/n wrt signed fact. and we're not going to be trapped in structureless dark forests forever. even now, people are leveraging AI to the contrary of this scenario, compressing cheap content into more digestible/qualifiable forms. we even have freakin @askgina.eth to doublecheck all the facts and offer counters. tbqh, doomerism is lindy because it's easy to sell, but I don't find his conclusion to be that credible.

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He goes a lot deeper into in his new book, which I recommend.

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I try to avoid the ideas of truth and falsehood. It feels like "jackal thinking." Just like good and bad, democracy and totalitarianism. The world isn’t black and white, and we don’t really know what’s truly good or bad for us. We’re just doing the best we can based on our worldview and the upbringing we have.

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Love that guy. Can’t remember if it was him or someone else I heard recently but they made the point that civilizations always turn to religion and/or violence when they experience rapid change. 😬

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I think the "it took 200 years after the printer press before <xyz>" is such a good timeframe to keep in mind - it's so helpful, as in we all naturally want shit to have happened, or will happen, within a timeline we are personally/biologically on. But 200 years, completely refactored Europe (meaning, a total shit show)...and then slowly, "Scientific method"...but only after ALOT of porn and mis-information was spread via those high-tech paper pamplets. I think of it in terms of digital computing. We've only had these for like 80 years, and more like 40 years from a "personal" computing standpoint. And the impact digital computing can have over what the printing press bought to the table is order of magnitude. My favorite story from this historical frame of reference is that the idea of a "book" didn't even show up for like 30 years after the printing press. Aldous Manucius was like "hey, hey....I got an idea...a <portable book>....whadaya reckon?"

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I started reading sapiens and it was giving airport book vibes. had to put it down.

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That’s a great episode.

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I appreciate this conversation as I believe that blockchain is a source of GOOD for ecological and social justice. 🌍🔥 recycle ♻️

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