Hamish Macdonald

We're not sure whether we are.

And so we're having to ask ourselves those questions.

And essentially our whole information ecosystem is being heavily polluted, sometimes deliberately, sometimes just by machines and computers and friends and family spreading stuff that they don't realize is false.

But everything that we consume is being polluted.

If you just imagine a big information stream that's constantly spewing at us,

You could argue that it's always been polluted, but I think the proliferation of digital media, social media, AI generated stuff is meaning that more and more of that is not trustworthy, is not what it looks like at first.

And so that's also sowing doubt in our own minds.

They call this the liar's dividend.

It's sowing doubt in our own minds about even the stuff that is true.

So we now don't really know what's fact.

Four years.

Four years.

In 2026.

2026, yeah.

Yeah, four or five years, yeah.

Everything's perfect now.

No.

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