Tuesday, March 12, 2013

[yijcrnhi] Technology for revealing or concealing truth

There is a battle of technology (broadly, including social institutions) between those who conceal truth and those who reveal and disseminate it.  The battle is critical, because the point of democracy (perhaps its only point) is to prevent the Big Lie, that extremely large truths cannot be concealed.

However, as technology progresses, it is far from obvious that the truth-tellers will always win.

Inspired by Amartya Sen and democracy's prevention of famine.

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