Post #2335231
2026-04-27 12:02 UTC
@Enthalpiste@social.sciences.re imagining a future where researchers have to constantly check sources to ensure they don't originate in the "dark ages" of 2025 - 40 where resources were broadly corrupted by hallucinations and slop, and engineered to *appear* authoritative.
When nobody remains who knows what actually happened during the Great Corruption and it's all too opaque to figure out.
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@fgrosshans@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-28 07:02
@ottaross@mastodon.social @Enthalpiste@social.sciences.re Reminds me the archeologists in "Century Rain", by Alastair Reynolds, who try to rebuild earth past when most of the digital data has been destroyed