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https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-Disinformation-Deforms-Democracy-or-NOEMA?index=0x679750af6b5b6b662a5d122d21a1ce1a1cc19250366346b2f66d0868eb9d7dce701a1206 this

I have generally always wondered how do we manage to have some semblance of shared truth - if we go down the decentralizing everything route.

"The downside of digital federalism comes from precisely what it has corrected for in societies where no common narrative prevails: “Without centralized governance, there is no single authority to mediate systemic issues or consistently enforce rules,” DiResta writes.

She continues: “Beyond the challenges of addressing illegal or harmful content, the Great Decentralization raises deeper questions about social cohesion: Will the fragmentation of platforms exacerbate ideological silos and further erode the shared spaces needed for consensus and compromise?

Our communication spaces shape our norms and politics. The very tools that now directly empower users to curate their feeds and block unwanted content may also amplify divisions or reduce exposure to differing perspectives."

Humanity lived liked that for most of our time on Earth. Even in the medieval times, people in small villages were pretty detached from what happened in the king's court, let alone different lands and countries.

It def wasn't positive for people's open mindedness and tolerance, it also gave King-level powers to local rulers because a farmer couldn't go to the court to sue an aristocrat that accidentally killed his pig.

On the other hand they had tons of stability and very little information to process, so I imagine they must have been much calmer.

It feels like all media - both mainstream and social - push for "you have to stay informed and be open to different perspectives" POV. And I agree that such an approach is useful, it helps you understand other people, and reduces the likelihood of potential wars.

So I'm all for that, that's one of the reasons why I work on Kiwi. But I'm wondering how much an average person actually wants to "stay informed and be open to different perspectives".

Why do politicians insist that „democratic rights“ have to code-ified in legalese? There are many rights given to us today that are not enabled, created or defended through legalese. Some code can act like law. It does already. Why do politicians insist on using legalese, why not use other more accessible means?

This story is now officially pinned to the top of the Hot feed!

I mean yeah, staying informed and open to different perspectives I think also is very closely related to how many "other" people one actually encounters on an everyday basis.Ofc online there is always a tendency to end up in filter bubbles.

But even offline to a certain degree, there's that - unless you make an effort to meet people who think differently, esp as a remote worker who technically could order everything online - and might live in the more fancy neighborhood (I don't, I live between a huge assortment of blocks haha)

Ahboyash applied Jevons paradox to the Deepseek cost optimization revelations: https://t.me/ahboyashreads/10239

What do people think? Does this make sense? Is it going to play out that way?

Long term I think it's true - if we were to realize Iain Banks, sci-fi level ambitions we need AI in many places working 24/7.

In many ways it's similar to blockchains - even if you reduce gas fees on Ethereum by 20X, you will just unlock new use cases. The difference is that AI use cases are more obvious than crypto.

Short term though the price action makes sense imo as Nvidia was a company that had billions of contracts and delivering them fast enough was the main constraint.