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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 19 2017, @06:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the hello-operator dept.

Memory is notoriously fallible, but some experts worry that a new phenomenon is emerging. "Memories are shared among groups in novel ways through sites such as Facebook and Instagram, blurring the line between individual and collective memories," says psychologist Daniel Schacter, who studies memory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The development of Internet-based misinformation, such as recently well-publicized fake news sites, has the potential to distort individual and collective memories in disturbing ways."

How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Sunday March 19 2017, @08:38PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday March 19 2017, @08:38PM (#481247)

    There is enough in that short post that if I had the time and inclination I could get a really big takedown out of it, it is so pure in the oblivious evil that shines forth from it that it approaches an ultimate Platonic Form.

    First we should all be able to imagine the wild eyes of a religious zealot that simply had to be there while composing it, as it looks forward to a purge of all heretics in the fire of His righteous flame of Truth. A daily confirmation that Moldbug was right when he observed that the Cathedral is little more than Puritanism / Calvinism shorn of God and made the State religion across most the world. It kept all the worst parts and replaced the good parts with far inferior replacements. But by deleting God it allowed Scientism to pretend it isn't a religion and avoid the unease with State religions that had developed in the West, establish itself and then set about purging all competing faiths. So from an evolutionary perspective it was a winning move. I have posted enough times the unavoidable Truth that Scientism is merely another religion requiring Faith in unprovable foundations that I do not plan to repeat it here.

    we had this technology sooner, there would have been less of a chance of slavery or genocide, specifically in places like the US and Africa

    Here I will make a detour to observe this is a fetid load of dingo's kidneys. Those things happen and will continue to happen when conditions are favorable, social media will have zero impact other than on the far margins in influencing when those conditions appear. Slavery happens when it is a practical solution to a problem. When you have a total war, you generally either kill or enslave the losers, you don't have to like those choices, reality does not care about your feelz though. The U.S. is pretty much the only historical example of a third way being tried, and considering it has a fair record it will likely be tried in the future until we learn the conditions it can and can't work. So far we can say it requires a total war, one where genocide or enslavement would be valid options, or nation building doesn't work. You can say genocide is morally superior to slavery but nature usually considers it a waste and will select against it.

    Facebook and Google are committed to tackling the Fake News menace..

    The Internet considers censorship as damage and routes around it. Has everyone forgotten that maxim or do they think Google and Facebook are unstoppable? MySpace was unstoppable. Yahoo! was unstoppable. The Internet Archive is full of sites that nobody could imagine ever falling into insignificance.

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