This is why freedom of speech is so essential and important for a free society to work. The FP just published a great excerpt from Tim Urban's book, "What's our Problem?" and it is about the importance of free speech. (I highly recommend you read through it.)
So many of the "mainstream" views that we are encountering in the media and that…
This is why freedom of speech is so essential and important for a free society to work. The FP just published a great excerpt from Tim Urban's book, "What's our Problem?" and it is about the importance of free speech. (I highly recommend you read through it.)
So many of the "mainstream" views that we are encountering in the media and that is shaping AI that Gioia reports on here, seems to be the result of dissenters not speaking up and a desire for conformity of thought, rather than diversity of thought, in what used to be the bastions of truth. Our sources of truth are no longer reliable, that is true - but how many individuals working for Facebook, or the New York Times, or on The Hill are suppressing their own speech for the sake of keeping with the mainstream? If you censor speech that questions a favored narrative by a loud and extreme side, you are not allowing such narrative to be questioned and thus, argued out in the marketplace of ideas. You wind up with a society that muzzles itself. If you cannot change or influence the larger society, all you can do is speak truth yourself and seek out the sources you trust and amplify them. I guess that is why we are all here, reading and commenting on an FP article that disturbs as much as it resonates with us.
I agree with you, but "diversity of thought" means a range of reasonable opinions should be given attention. "I think government should be more involved in helping people" vs. "I think government should be minimized" are both reasonable opinions, even though people disagree with one or the other.
"Jews are using space lasers to install 5G in our brains" is not. 30 years ago that would get you put in a mental hospital, now it gets you into Congress.
Fifty years ago people spouting the equivalent of 5g nonsense were on street corners in every big city, not in mental hospitals. We knew it was nonsense.
This is why freedom of speech is so essential and important for a free society to work. The FP just published a great excerpt from Tim Urban's book, "What's our Problem?" and it is about the importance of free speech. (I highly recommend you read through it.)
So many of the "mainstream" views that we are encountering in the media and that is shaping AI that Gioia reports on here, seems to be the result of dissenters not speaking up and a desire for conformity of thought, rather than diversity of thought, in what used to be the bastions of truth. Our sources of truth are no longer reliable, that is true - but how many individuals working for Facebook, or the New York Times, or on The Hill are suppressing their own speech for the sake of keeping with the mainstream? If you censor speech that questions a favored narrative by a loud and extreme side, you are not allowing such narrative to be questioned and thus, argued out in the marketplace of ideas. You wind up with a society that muzzles itself. If you cannot change or influence the larger society, all you can do is speak truth yourself and seek out the sources you trust and amplify them. I guess that is why we are all here, reading and commenting on an FP article that disturbs as much as it resonates with us.
I agree with you, but "diversity of thought" means a range of reasonable opinions should be given attention. "I think government should be more involved in helping people" vs. "I think government should be minimized" are both reasonable opinions, even though people disagree with one or the other.
"Jews are using space lasers to install 5G in our brains" is not. 30 years ago that would get you put in a mental hospital, now it gets you into Congress.
Fifty years ago people spouting the equivalent of 5g nonsense were on street corners in every big city, not in mental hospitals. We knew it was nonsense.