We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Huxley’s

Re:We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Hux... by diego_moita on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:53AM (#30333488)

> you want all information to be free

Yes, I do.

And I also want it to be free from a cacophony of noise.

And big corporations also have the right to practice judgment and filter out noise, if they want to do so.

And Alex Jones is mostly noise, he barely provides any information.

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Re:We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Hux... by mherdeg on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:33AM (#30334014)

> And I also want it to be free from a cacophony of noise.

OK in this case I think the dystopia you're living in is Neal Stephenson's Anathem, where a tribe of techno-priests professionally searches the Internet to try to find true information among a sea of lies that were machine-generated by large language models which were deployed during various nation-state conflicts and are now permanently endemic on the Internet.

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Re:We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Hux... by diego_moita on Monday February 14, 2022 @12:01PM (#30334380)

You got me.

Added that title to my "books to read" list.

Thank you.

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Re:We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Hux... by Brian_K_White on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:56PM (#30340408)

"And I also want it to be free from a cacophony of noise."

That is an invalid self-contradictory idea.

You can't have curated un-curated.

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Re:We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Hux... by verisimi on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:29AM (#30333961)

"And I also want it to be free from a cacophony of noise."

Oh dear - I think you have been born in the wrong time. :)

My point is that there aren't external independent arbiters of information out there. No one holds the truth. Facebook even admits that its fact checking is just opinion.

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