<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Is cultural-hyper-relativism intellectual disinformation or just misinformation?</div><div dir="ltr">Does it depend on whether the intention is to mislead or just persuade?</div><div dir="ltr">What if the purveyor is a believer who is selfishly trying to get people to agree with his theory?</div><div>Ah, the complex subtlety of the role of intent.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Are there metadata that might correlate with the intent behind disinformation?</div><div>Assessing this would the analogue to using galvanic skin response and heart rate for lie detection.</div><div>I.e. an index that would automatically update with each replication to provide a crude "reliability rating" linked to each message.</div><div>Though fallible and defeatable it could be a first mode of alert - like the initial pause when you answer a robocall.</div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 4:14 AM Joseph Brenner <<a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"">This note is to
denounce a principle of cultural relativism that has crept into the Lecture
discussion. The concept that opposing points of view are always equally valid
is a form of crypto-fascism that for me is totally unacceptable. It is Trump’s
“there are good guys on the other side”, which included the
murderers of a demonstrator. Does anyone on the list want to suggest that
clitorectomies are acceptable because “it’s part of the culture”?
I do not intend to include responses to such notes in my final summary. If this
position is not to the liking of some members, they can erase my future
messages, as I have theirs.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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