[moe091]

I agree with your point, but also think this trajectory is kind of inevitable in a way. As we can already see, a LOT of people are living deep in a world of BS news stories and made up facts, to the point where they're basically in a different reality.

Ideally, we'd find a way to go backwards from where we are now, maybe future generations will grow up with this flood of false info and learn to navigate it, but I think we reached a point where tech is developing so fast, and the world is changing so fast, that there were always be a large number of people who can't "keep up".

Given that, this may be one of the few scenarios where I'm in favor of a kind of "accelerationism" - increase the problem to a breaking point as soon as possible so that we can deal with the fallout and recover from it now, rather than dealing with this horrible state of things for decades and decades as it slowly gets worse and worse, until we eventually reach a breaking point anyway and likely have an even worse fallout to recover from.

[drdaeman]

I appreciate your comment. Thinking of it - you are probably right. It is a matter of time, as long as we don't accidentally take a wrong turn toward some dystopia. Won't happen in my lifetime, but future generations raised observing this state of discord would naturally learn how to deal with it. And us old farts with our susceptibility for delusion (because we, en masse, have only encountered it past our youth, when learning and adapting is harder) will be history.