There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott15 insights · See all
- Because current platforms optimize short-term profit and lack a global objective like human flourishing or truth, people—creators, researchers, and users—must act as the 'algorithm for truth' by fact-checking and steering systems toward honest outcomes.
Because current platforms optimize short-term profit and lack a global objective like human flourishing or truth, people—creators, researchers, and users—must act as the 'algorithm for truth' by fact-checking and steering systems toward honest outcomes.
- Because curriculum change and large-scale systemic reforms are politically and logistically slow, teaching information literacy is necessary but cannot quickly fix the current misinformation problem on its own.
Because curriculum change and large-scale systemic reforms are politically and logistically slow, teaching information literacy is necessary but cannot quickly fix the current misinformation problem on its own.
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