[crazygringo]

We've been in a post-truth era for all of human history, since the first hunter-gatherer told a lie to take advantage of someone else.

Which is why we evolved to have exquisite bullshit detectors. They're not perfect, but they're pretty decent.

The answer around what is real and not is the same as it ever was -- does information come from a respected, generally trustworthy source or not? Does it come from a source that might have an agenda, or not? Is it written in a way that seems to gather a lot of evidence in all directions and then explain its conclusion in a plausible way, or is it clearly one-sided?

Bullshit detection, fraud detection, scam detection -- these have always been necessary skills in the world. Sure the scale of misinformation grows, but so do the tools we have to combat it. Email spam was a huge problem, then Gmail filtered it out.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[flir]

I Am A ~~Strange Loop~~ Exquisite Bullshit Detector

(not a joke)

[tstrimple]

> Which is why we evolved to have exquisite bullshit detectors.

The number of MAGA voters really strains the credibility of this one.