Hank: the internet's destruction of trust will not stop getting worse soon (2024)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2024-11-22) · owner: Hank
In November 2024 Hank predicted that the internet's destruction of trust would not stop getting worse soon, while saying he would love to be proved wrong.
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-22 | predicted | Hank does not think the destruction of trust will stop getting worse soon, would love to be proved wrong, and allows it may be less bad than he thinks. (hedged) | Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment 00:24:12 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank doubts the lesson that everybody must now do populism: he admits being one of the elites, but sometimes popular things suck. — 00:24:55
- 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank proposes two factors in reputational harm ('cancelling') to experts and institutions: how much it is deserved, and how easy it is to inflict, only loosely connected. — 00:25:25
- 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank thinks whatever makes building new homes so much harder in blue states than red states deserves to be named and shamed. — 00:25:54
- 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says the measles vaccine and FDA rules on raw milk are easy to attack but the evidence says they don't deserve cancelling; he worries systems are being cancelled. — 00:25:54
- 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank lists institutions suddenly almost equally under reputational attack, from the CDC, FDA, EPA, schools and the press to Ukraine, NATO, voting machines, chemotherapy and fluoridation. — 00:26:23
- 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says, from his own world, there is a feedback cycle between creators, recommendation systems and audiences: the system shows what works and creators do it. — 00:26:52
- 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says viewers follow creators down the hole, from mild suspicion of impenetrable systems to certainty that every lost election is fraudulent. — 00:27:14
- 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says groups less aligned with existing systems do best here, his bureaucracy-staffing group worse, and he is very suspicious of charismatic people claiming only they can be trusted. — 00:27:44