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The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger

Rebel Wisdom · interview · Watch on YouTube

Media, journalism & propagandaFuturism & technology and societyPhilosophy & ethics

What it is

Daniel Schmachtenberger discusses why the information ecology is damaged and what healthy public sensemaking would take. The conversation ties this to the meaning crisis and to improving discourse.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended to people interested in propaganda, misinformation and how to improve public discourse.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “I highly recommend it.”

    Series on propaganda in the social media era.

    cdstyh, 2021-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (2017)”

  2. “some recent hope came from Daniel Schmachtenberger”

    Schmachtenberger on how information ecology and debate optimize for bias.

    undershirt, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “Reason Won't Save Us”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: sensemaking, misinformation, propaganda, epistemics, discourse

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