Read_927 - Poe's Law Comes Into Full Flower
By Guy Swann
Aired Jan 18, 2026 · 1h 4m · Last boosted Jan 21, 2026
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"To describe what’s coming as “impossibly borked” is charitable. This is going to be an unholy mess of indiscernible media, messaging, photography, and fakery. ... “reality fade” into fractal digital fog will stress even the highest trust networks." ~ El Gato Malo What happens when anything and everything can be faked at essentially zero cost? When the line between parody and reality completely dissolves? In this episode, I explore El Gato Malo's brilliant piece on the coming "reality fracture" - but here's the twist: what if this digital apocalypse is actually the best thing that could...
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Humans evolved to trust what they see with their own eyes, or what a trusted person told them (with qualifications unique to that person). It strikes me as a positive thing at least psychologically that people will have to stop trusting media, non-local govt, large bureaucracies. The problem is that there is economy of scale to widespread trade which benefits from large scale standards and measures. We will need sou…
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Thank you for this. Lots of good things to reflect on.