People exist as information beings within a civilization built on shared knowledge and practical application. Culture functions as information shortcuts, while society balances cross-cultural understandings. Science aims to enhance comprehension beyond sensory limitations. However, reliance on bad information can lead to significant repercussions, manifesting as information pollution or poison, resulting in flawed experiments and broader systemic failures such as climate change. Despite access to vast information, understanding remains superficial, complicating our grasp of reality and each other, especially in unfamiliar environments and ecosystems.
People are information beings. Our civilization is created from shared information with practical application - part know-how, part doing.
Bad information comes from mistakes and lies, and produces information pollution or information poison.
Misalign understanding to reality, and an experiment doesn't work as intended. Misalign understanding to reality at scale, and the mistakes compound until they oscillate and fall apart - like what's happening with climate change now.
Despite the overwhelming amount of information at our fingertips, we do not actually have a deep and pervasive bead on reality.
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