what if we just made the whole plane out of the Gettier problem?

why consume ideas in a format where the speaker knows they wont be diligently cited and put under intellectual scrutiny?

the hyperbole as criticism schtick is played out

well said!

i take your point, but am curious about why plausibility isnt even the main trajectory today? and when more of those arrive, i think actual imagery will still have a truth-telling role

getting high on their own supply lol

of course rob already made the point better than i did lol

id love to know more about said conference

exactly. fact checking is a lot easier than tackling the "functional part that matters," as you put it, i guess

glad we were able to get this one in under the wire too lol

maybe epistemic gatekeepers constantly decry the end of truth not because that is happening but because their position as such is in jeopardy

most big news stories come with social videos taken from many angles that add up to something we accept happened

so another good question is: why in the face of the enduring truth-telling function of cameras do pundits constantly declare such function over?

"nostalgia isn't what it used to be"

will read - love the abstract, thanks!

think "synthetic media" is a redundancy

good q! for me, its not drawing the distinction bw AI vs not AI super hard but instead the structures, incentives, politics etc in producing and consuming any media. eg, centering nostalgia as it occurs across many mediated forms over the last few decades, where AI is just one chapter in that story