The fallacy of the middle is a poison that extremists with power and media reach use to kill productive discourse.
People who don't care about the distinction between truth and falsehood understand this very well, and use it to its full potential. After all, the half-way point between truth and a wild, brazen, self-serving lie is... A self-serving lie.
The media has been largely complicit in this (Because controversy sells), but now we're getting this crap cemented in AI models. Wonderful.
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The promise that hackers are making is that these systems will enhance our knowledge and understanding. The reality that they have delivered in a bullshit generator which serves its operators.
The middle is not a fallacy. There is more than a binary choice most of the time and most of politics is subjective. The media is largely complicit in selling the lie that there are only two flavours of ice cream available at any given time.
People who don't care about the distinction between truth and falsehood understand this very well, and use it to its full potential. After all, the half-way point between truth and a wild, brazen, self-serving lie is... A self-serving lie.
The media has been largely complicit in this (Because controversy sells), but now we're getting this crap cemented in AI models. Wonderful.
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The promise that hackers are making is that these systems will enhance our knowledge and understanding. The reality that they have delivered in a bullshit generator which serves its operators.