| ▲ | utopiah 2 hours ago | |
Pretty much boils down to lying. Since we've been kids we've been taught, hopefully, that lying is bad. Society though normalize it : - advertisement is pretty much always wrong (to the point of having laws in Japan about food packaging, France about modeling, etc) and the deception is the message - entrepreneurs promises, nobody reach the goals set to VCs, it's always a lower number no matter the KPI. See https://elonmusk.today where the wealthiest man on Earth, ever, keeps on lying pretty much daily. - political promises, no need to even give examples of that because it's just pervasive. so... yeah, we keep on telling our kids "Do as I say, not as I do." then we somehow keep on being shocked that the practice of lying is pretty much happening in every corner of our society. It's not a technical problem. | ||
| ▲ | klabb3 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
The fun part is when it’s important you have the right information to make a decision. Eg Russia to invade Ukraine and all top generals claim they can do it in 2 weeks. Similar for a corporation with layers of middle management deception and self promotion, I don’t know how executives make decisions but it must be RNG basically, because it certainly isn’t fact. Lying at scale is basically information noise. | ||