As you all know, there’s been a problem with disinformation recently. Governments and advertisers are working to protect us from this threat, but none the less the threat exists and we should be aware that dangerous and wrong information exists and can fool us, hurt us, hurt our families, and hurt our countries and the businesses that our country’s leaders have invested in. Hopefully a solution will be found soon that can protect us once and for all from these threats, but for now we have to be on our toes. In that spirit I would like to share a particularly pernicious bit of disinformation, so that you can be aware it exists and be prepared to ban people from your platforms who might parrot it.
Without further ado, here is the pernicious disinformation. It concerns the topic of disinformation.
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY AUTHORITIES TO BE DISINFORMATION ABOUT DISINFORMATION
The idea is simple, it is that learning new things can sometimes be good. It could even save your life. Once we accept that learning new things might be OK, we can then realize that these new things once were not yet learned, which means these things were not already in our belief system. These things were disinformation, in the context of what we knew at that point. Every major advance in any scientific field began its life as disinformation. For example, Boltzmann went to his grave with his atomic theory of gases still mostly banned and considered as disinformation. After all, “everyone knows” that the ideal gas law and the attributes of a gas such as pressure and temperature are the final story, as science confirmed, according to authorities at the time. Today Boltzmann’s atomic theory is considered correct, because it got by some of the filters and fact checkers **, which weren’t very advanced at the time.
Anyone who hopes to survive, as an individual, as a family, as a company, as a country, as Gaia (life on Earth), must be sure to often expose themselves to disinformation. Disinformation is the only hope to adapt, to be aware of new threats, and to remain competitive with others who are learning and adapting. It also can teach us what kidn of nonsense people are up to so we can safely ignore it. To eliminate all disinformation would be to set ourselves permanently in whatever existing paradigm we have at the moment, which probably isn’t 100% perfect in its extrapolations and interpolations of the infinite world based on a limited past set of finite observations. Sure, disinformation is likely to often be wrong, or worse (like trolling) but it also has the potential to very occasionally contain an important lesson. We have especially learned this in the last few years, as some censored information wound up a year later as square in the middle of overwhelming scientific consensus.
If we are intellectuals, we need to recognize that intellectual activity must stand on a foundation of humility, of recognition that our own understanding isn’t perfect and so we are willing to wade through the sewer of disinformation and hope we can find some new viewpoint worth seeing. Disinformation might not have a place everywhere but it is absolutely essential to learning and survival. Seek it out and revel in it!
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Wow, what a load of garbage eh? Imagine being so intellectually weak that we would openly admit to maybe not understanding something completely. That is simply not an option in today’s competitive world in which we have to move at the pace of science to understand what is taking place in the market.
We must show strength and not allow anything at all to get past our defenses for our carefully constructed and perfect standard model ™, which after all is what our scientific history, all the work of our ancestors, has produced! Defend it to the death! Don’t waste your time looking at anything other than material declared to be in perfect agreement with what authorities have determined to be true! You could be corrupted or worse, sent to the camps. Epstein killed himself! All medical products are safe and effective! War is good for the economy!
Alert! The ministry of disinformation has determined that this entire blog post is now considered misinformation, and we are not talking about a beauty pageant for the IT industry. We are talking about misinformation on the topic of what is disinformation about disinformation. This domain has been seized. Be aware that as someone who has read the material herein, your assets are subject to confiscation by agents of the disinformation protection board.
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As a bonus this week we are going to provide a FactCheck ™ free of charge! We are going to check a statement from Paul Craig Roberts:
” In my opinion, “fact checkers” are unintelligent people devoid of integrity who are hired to support official narratives by stamping out truth and dissenting opinion. Who checks the “fact checkers?” There is no reason to trust a “fact checker.” Anyone can set up a “fact check” site to protect any material or ideological interest from examination. Note that “fact checkers” appeared only after the official narratives became so blatantly false that they had to be protected from examination. Never before did we have an industry of censors employed to protect official narratives. “Fact checkers” are the true enemies of truth.”
Our fact checkers at SaulTheory have checked this statement carefully and determined it to be: False.