The more we flood the world with information, unless we make the effort to construct institutions that invest in truth, we'll be flooded by fiction and illusion and delusion and junk information.
for - quote - flooded with misinformation - Yuval Noah Harari - The more we flood the world with information, - unless we make the effort to construct institutions that invest in truth, - we'll be flooded by fiction, illusion, delusion and junk information.
we 00:11:13 have a media that needs to survive based on clicks and controversy and serving the most engaged people
for - quote - roots of misinformation, quote - roots of fake news, key insight - roots of misinformation
key insight - roots of misinformation - (see below)
quote - roots of misinformation - we have a media that needs to survive based on - clicks and - controversy and - serving the most engaged people - so they both sides the issues - they they lift up - facts and - lies - as equivalent in order to claim no bias but - that in itself is a bias because - it gives more oxygen to the - lies and - the disinformation - that is really dangerous to our society and - we are living through the impacts of - those errors and - that malpractice -done by media in America
These algorithms are invisible, but they have an outsized impact on shaping individuals’ experience online and society at large.
The instinctual BS-meter is not enough. The next version of the ‘BS-meter’ will need to be technologically based. The tricks of misinformation have far outstripped the ability of people to reliably tell whether they are receiving BS or not – not to mention that it requires a constant state of vigilance that’s exhausting to maintain. I think that the ability and usefulness of the web to enable positive grassroots civic communication will be harnessed, moving beyond mailing lists and fairly static one-way websites.
He tried to show that this‘favorite topic’ of his, ‘insistence on exactness in chronological dates’, amounted tomore than a trifling (Deutsch, 1915, 1905a). Deutsch compared such historical accuracyto that of a bookkeeper who might recall his ledger by memory. ‘People would look uponsuch an achievement’, he reflected, ‘as a freak, harmless, but of no particular value, infact rather a waste of mental energy’ (Deutsch, 1916). However, he sought to show thatthese details mattered, no different from how ‘a difference in a ledger of one centremains just as grievous as if it were a matter of $100,000’ (Deutsch, 1904a: 3).
Interesting statement about how much memory matters, though it's missing some gravitas somehow.
Is there more in the original source?