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Re:Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy by orbital-decay on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:48PM (#18556800)
That's just... a fundamental limitation? I don't think there's a way for an unskilled ("normal") person to dissect and analyze the information outside of their understanding in a meaningful way, no matter how creative you get.
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Re:Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy by simonh on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:13AM (#18559421)
I think that's the point. It's not anybody's fault and it's not that anyone is doing anything wrong, it's just a problem we need to take into account and try to mitigate.
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Re:Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy by gambler on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:51AM (#18561031)
>That's just... a fundamental limitation? I don't think there's a way for an unskilled ("normal") person to dissect and analyze the information outside of their understanding in a meaningful way, no matter how creative you get.

This is discussed in depth in Augmenting Human Intellect:

http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/138/000/

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