The bill will eventually come due: as Phil Dick taught us, “reality is that which doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.” But there’s no guarantee whatsoever that any such reckoning will happen quickly enough to preserve the health of systems that have drifted into epistemic error themselves, or been exposed to that error as an endemic or field condition. And that very much includes our own health.
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I posted some thoughts in response to Erin’s piece on my Patreon, taking in among other things the epistemic fog of plausibility generated by LLMs, the vital importance of counterforensics in times of deliberately-generated and -exploited epistemic confusion, and the conservation of accurate knowledge over durations in excess of ten millennia in the Indigenous Tasmanian oral tradition (free). Merry Christmas, kids. https://www.patreon.com/posts/146575113
@adamgreenfield Fahrenheit 451? Rely on paper based sources published or printed pre 2021?
