Comments on: Post-Fact Epistemology and a more divisive internet public sphere https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/post-fact-epistemology-and-a-more-divisive-internet-public-sphere/2012/10/25 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:19:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Poor Richard https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/post-fact-epistemology-and-a-more-divisive-internet-public-sphere/2012/10/25/comment-page-1#comment-493437 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:03:47 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=27072#comment-493437 No individual human is any longer able to do a satisfactory job of fact checking or information quality control on the volume of data (information overload) that confronts us. We require trustworthy institutions for this. Semantic data mining will eventually be able to give us an accurate accounting of public opinion and of scientific findings. However, if we care about the survival of our species, we should be devoting at least 10% of our total global R&D budget to information quality control.

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