| ▲ | intended 9 hours ago | |
Not a hope. Most economic value arises from distinguishing signal from noise. All of science is distinguishing signal from noise. Its valuable, because it is hard. It is also slow - the only way to verify something is often to have reports from someone who IS there. The conflict arises not from verifying the easy things - searching under the illumination of street lights. Its verifying if you have a weird disease, or if people are alive in a disaster, or what is actually going on in a distant zone. Verification is laborious. In essence, the universe is not going to open up its secrets to us, unless the effort is put in. Content generation on the other hand, is story telling. It serves other utility functions to consumers - fulfilling emotional needs for example. As the ratio of content to information keeps growing, or the ratio of content to verification capacity grows - we will grow increasingly overwhelmed by the situation. | ||