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The most powerful agent is the one which manages to confiscate our only real asset - our time.

Trump is pretty good at it with all the controversies he is generating.

AI-assisted systems will be targeted at maximizing this interaction metric. You are slowly cooked by your favorite entertainer of the day to be then fed with an opinion which you take as your own. It is not novel at all.

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This. Fact-checking is more time consuming than making things up. So they can drown out the fact checkers easily. And the facts are often uncomfortably murky. Whereas the lies build loyalty and belonging, an ideal basis for a movement.

> Fact-checking is more time consuming than making things up.

AKA the "bullshit asymmetry principle"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...

"Both sidesism" is a closely related problem.

"We interviewed Elena, a geophysicist, about the different ways scientists collect data about the planet we live on and the cosmos it's situated in. On the other side, Bob from the internet offers his theory about the earth being flat".

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