[DavidPiper]

This is a very curious take (pun intended). I also agree with many of the lines of questioning you've written here. (Not American, but very generalise-able of course.)

Based on your bio, I'd be genuinely interested to know if you have thoughts on a very related question that I've been struggling with lately:

If we can create things that people believe reflect reality (news, literature, video games, ...), or further create fake things that people believe are completely real (voice clones, deep fakes, AI video, ...), what evidence (or other factor) is sufficient for someone with this questioning mindset to stop questioning and start acting?

[bsenftner]

Desire? Will? Not sure how this decision could be anything but individual. (Geeze, my bio was out of date. I updated it.)