We have repeatedly seen that a relatively small number of gate-keepers can create a narrative out of thin air. We are seeing this vividly in the recent Russiagate disclosures. I’ve documented hundreds of incidents of what I call “Narratives in Media” on this website.
It might be about to get a lot worse due to AI video technology, according to Brett Weinstein:
AI is about, within the next year or so, going to be capable of producing compelling video, evidence that will not be detectable. That is going to create, first, a radical increase in the rate of proliferation of cognitive universes that we are forced to keep alive.
And I suspect that the immediate consequence of that is going to be paralysis. That the number of different combinations of possibilities where you cannot resolve–you cannot get closure and say, “I think I live in this world and so I’m going to ignore all of those possibilities over there and go forward as if this is true.”
You’re basically going to become agnostic about just about everything. And so in this mental multiverse, you will maybe be able to avoid embarrassment by not putting your weight on any of the ice, but you can’t accomplish anything in that state. And that’s what I’m concerned about. We are going to be effectively put into a circumstance where everybody will be afraid to assume enough about the world to actually be capable of acting rationally toward it. And that’s a very frightening prospect.
