Peter Ludemann on Nostr: As the original Eliza showed, humans are easily tricked into believing that a machine ...

As the original Eliza showed, humans are easily tricked into believing that a machine is authoritative. But they're also easily tricked into believing that what's in a newspaper or on a TV "news" show is authoritative. To me, it's a spectrum of unreliable information; but for most people, the media matters (as Marshal McLuhan pointed out in "The Medium Is the Massage" (not "message")).