Information is neither the raw material of truth, as the naive view holds, nor just a weapon, as populists claim

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• The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026
• People in an information economy are thinking less, mainly because of television, and more information from the Web will not change that: most already get more than they can assimilate. SJSteve Jobs1 Feb 1996
• The biggest misconception about information is that it is truth; truth is a rare and costly kind of information YHYuval Noah Harari11 Dec 2025
• Humans are social animals rather than truth-seeking ones, so telling the truth is not what we are built for and always costs energy. JBJeff Bezos14 Dec 2023
• The Net may not produce a more complex vision of reality, because what becomes too easy becomes sloppy MCMihaly Csikszentmihalyic. 1996

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