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I think the only way to really fight this is to take it to a stupid level.
Something like try to take down all videos about aliens on the platform as misinformation.
I mean how can we take down all these videos but let videos about aliens be fine with zero proof for the existence of aliens? It is clearly conspiracy theory and misinformation.
It seems many people have a completely unscientific view of reality in that they have absolute certainty in what they believe to be true.
I think there are people who are looking for North Korea level approval ratings on things. If you have zero uncertainty in what you think is true then anything contradictory is naturally "misinformation".
If you wanna go around arguing the Earth is flat, you need to have something more persuasive than 'do the research.' Not that you personally believe in a flat earth, but it's a good example of why we shouldn't treat epistemological uncertainty as the starting point; there is so much evidence for Earth being round and so little offered in favor of it being flat that its roundness should be treated as a fact unless extraordinary new evidence to the contrary is produced. If someone comes along insisting on its flatness without overcoming that bar, then it's OK to treat them as either a fool or a troll and reject their opinions.
Wonderful. I am such a Taleb fan boy but have been putting off Designing Data Intensive Applications. I am starting on it this afternoon from this post.
I just started on Daniel Kahneman's Noise. It will be disappointing if it isn't one of these type of books.
Absolutely. I loved Usenet in the mid 90s. Message boards just seemed like a cool upgrade to Usenet and I didn't have to bother with a reader. I doubt I even had a reader installed by 2002ish.
What would the point of a FED created USD stablecoin be over USD?
People act like you have to take gold bars to the grocery store to make exchanges as opposed to just using your bank card and electronically settling up in USD.
The point would be to provide a more legitimate USD stablecoin in a space that seems to be attracting a growing user base (blockchains). I imagine a significant share of the market would choose the Fed-provided stablecoin over any of the non-Fed competitors. If you're using US Dollars in the first place you're already inherently trusting the Fed, so it shouldn't be a much bigger leap to also use their blockchain-based version. This would reduce the degree to which Tether and others are "a challenge to financial stability" because it puts mint/burn powers of the dominant USD stablecoin squarely back in the control of the Fed.
