How do we know what we know - thank you for tackling one of the most important questions of all times. Before the internet, at least we used to know who was influencing us. Since defending oneself against an unknown-unknown is impossible, turning it into a known-unknown (ore vaguely more aware unknown) is rendering us an inestimable service.

I don't really think about our subconscious 'metadata', little bits of information we don't focus on but still absorb. It falls in line and helps build our world view. We probably see hundreds of these that we never question....interesting to say the least. Hopefully we can be more intentional and curious about those tid bits.

Loved this one Mike. I’m praying for his success and will be looking up that crypto project to see how it’s possible to help them. These are the articles that keep that subscription automatic for me.

I really enjoyed this one as it touches on stuff near and dear to me, although misses answers I think are obvious. For instance, my gut feeling is that 100% of the people who pull shenanigans at Wikipedia are convinced they are being totally neutral and fair. They’ve all followed a trail of incentives to get into those roles and now are all pulling in the same direction because those incentives created an ideological filter.

I’d be curious to hear what he has to say about Community Notes. To me, that is the very obvious way ahead with some extra caveats. No one person can definitively have the correct point of view forever. There needs to be a system for a consensus view across ideologies that still lets groups have their own identity.

Great piece. What an ending!!