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David Wallace-Wells on Empowering the Future

The Daily Stoic

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Climate Change - Is the Media Manipulating the Reality?

I think the bad news bias is there. The more the other distorting bias is just the human bias you mentioned, which is narrative. And so that's the other problem is like people are consuming information day to day even though our understanding is changing on a slightly different time span and events are transpiring on a different time span. So I think one of the things that makes even if we could all immediately download everyone, give us a shared consciousness of all the problems of the world, it would be hard to mobilize us to solve those difficult problems. But that can't happen between us and the alignment we need is this inherently unreliable, unevenly distributed media system.

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