From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 08:29:01 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 12:45 am, spike66 wrote:
>
>> If we get a more transparent society, it is unclear what humans will
>> do with all the correct information that becomes available. It will
>> be quite puzzling to see the world the way it really is, instead of some
>> pre-packaged religionized, disguised, advertized and politicized bunch
>> of intentional deception.
>
> Actually, a truthful world would be less puzzling, more consistent, with
> less contradictions.
I'm not sure. Remember that the media act to eliminate complexity and
substitute cliches. It might take a lot of intelligence to see the real
description of the world as information-theoretically simpler than the
media's.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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