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Re:Why Fiction Beats Truth by tunesmith on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:05PM (#20017127)
It is possible to engineer communication to alter the power levels between fiction and truth. Just look at Twitter, which did this in the wrong direction - there is reduced accountability and greater power in quipping something misleading or false, compared to doing so offline.

But if instead there was an engineered solution to speed up the feedback loop between theory and reality, or fiction and truth, then there would be more of a cost towards saying outlandish things.

"Truth wins in the long run" and "in the long run, we're all dead"... so you have to figure out how to make it more of a medium- or short-run. There's also that other quote, I forget, about "my irrationality exceeds your bankroll", where people can lose their shirt betting on truth if the market stays irrational long enough. That's when you need clearer truth singles sooner, so truth can win more reliably.

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