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When The Cost of Truth Is High, We (And AI) Lie...
When The Cost of Truth Is High, We (And AI) Lie...
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
When we can no longer tell the truth because the cost is so high that it threatens our reward for compliance, we're unimaginably impoverished.
Truth has an intrinsic, irreplaceable value.
There's the truth, and then there's everything else.
Truth has value, and so it has a cost.
Whatever has the highest value has the highest cost, and high cost commands sacrifices.
When the cost of truth is high, we lie.
And since AI is a distorted reflection of...
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