Maybe a restatement of Glen's point would be:
Misinformation and disinformation are a given:
How we manage our trust is the challenge.
I was introduced to Dempster-Shafer theory on a project a number of
years ago... and was impressed by some of its' utility as a formalism on
the problem we were working (actually extensions to D-S theory)...
On the original topic, however, I feel like my world has been, for a
very long time, invaded by the forces of propaganda, misinformation and
disinformation. One of the more interesting books I received when my
grandfather died was entitled "Straight and Crooked Thinking" written
near the turn of the 20th century... and of course we have the Greeks
coining concepts such as "rhetoric" and "sophistry" millennia ago.
- Steve
Are there not more and less risky sources? If you have source that provides
you with high-quality, predictive information, over and over and they are
right, should not that individual be allowed less scrutiny than a person that
has no track record, or a bad track record? Given finite attention, doesn't a
person have to decide what to scrutinize, and what to let slide?
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That scratch in my surface jumps me back, yet again, to the postmodern point:
Beware of the online war of propaganda
http://news.usc.edu/82853/beware-of-the-war-of-propaganda-taking-place-online/
“People normally trust online content,” said Farshad Kooti, one of the Ph.D.
candidates at USC Viterbi who worked with Galstyan. “Unfortunately, this
introduces an opportunity to spread misinformation by using automated bots that
are very hard to detect.”
Misinformation and disinformation are NOT the threat. Trust is the threat.
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