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by toss1 291 days ago
Wow, what an excellent and concise way of describing the conundrum!

Indeed, if we are surrounded by only supposed "information" that is false, it is technically the same as having zero new information!

So it is the situation preventing us from learning. The key difference is the disinformation tempts us to falsely learn, when the right move is to hold onto our priors until we can find verifiable new information.