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Testify!

I'm of an opinion that this is why AI is all the hype now. Ability to generate plausibly-looking image of anything. Making everyone a schizophrenic, basically, because nothing can be trusted.

A footage is made of A country militia massacring a town belonging to a minority - oops, there's a similar footage of that minority's guerillas doing the same. You can't decide what's true and what's not by just looking at it.

Except the way we observe the universe, looking at the same object different ways, via gravitational lenses and different frequencies and differentiated over time by parallax, angular size and what not.

(I'm not an astrophysicist, not even interested enough to assemble some willpower to get my knowledge right.)

That's why there should be only one Web, no other hypertext systems, one very complex and potent set of standards, one ecosystem of computing, one paradigm of software distribution, one chain of production of these complex systems. This doesn't mean no competition inside those paradigms, it's fine. But none outside.

You should look at the reality only via the same channel, same in the sense of being augmented similarly in all dimensions.

Now, my conclusion of this is that such a system will eventually lead to an escape from one big trap the humanity has been building up for itself since around 1990. There are things people learn and things people don't learn. Not trusting such a media environment is something they do learn. Even a freer and more enlightened society can emerge from that - once again.

Oh, don't you worry. It only feels like that because it absolutely definitely is collapsing around you. 😊