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1. Scott, Drowning in Information (vortex_egg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 05:05:49 JST Scott, Drowning in Information

   We are all so terribly misinformed to the degree that we are misinformed about how we are misinformed and thus unable to differentiate between the empirically verifiable ways in which we are misinformed and the harmful conspiracy theories about why we are misinformed.

   And that was the baseline situation prior to the range of digital information technologies, social media influence networks, digital propaganda operations, recommender algorithms, large language models, etc etc coming onto the scene.

   • Scott, Drowning in Information (vortex_egg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 05:05:48 JST Scott, Drowning in Information

     in reply to

     I’m reading an article for class about how the idea of “digital natives” is actually non-empirical bullshit, and it is going into an analysis of how the idea got to be so widely believed based on no factual foundation in the first place.

     Anyway, I’m just musing about how so much of what we believe to be “true” about reality are counterknowledge and false constructions, and that this dynamic exists simultaneously to corporate and socially produced agnotologies and to cultic conspiracism about “mainstream media”, education etc.

   • Scott, Drowning in Information (vortex_egg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 05:05:49 JST Scott, Drowning in Information

     in reply to

     Super cursed knowledge society.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.