[concurrentsquar]

This, or cryptographic signing (like what the C2PA suggests) of all real digital media on the Earth are the only ways to maintain consensus reality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_reality) in a post-AI world.

I personally would want to live in Aaronson's world, and not the world where a centralized authority controls the definition of reality.

[greiskul]

How can we maintain consensus reality, when it has never existed? There are a couple of bubbles of humanity where honesty and skepticism and valued. Everywhere else, at all moments of history, truth has been manipulated to subjugate people. Be it newspaper owned by polical families, priests, etc.