jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoNo one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square182fedilinkarrow-up1464arrow-down145cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1419arrow-down1external-linkNo one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.www.theverge.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square182fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareconciselyverboselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIt’s the exact same thing. You’re drawing a distinction between two identical things. Pictures have not been credible for a long time. You shouldn’t have “trusted” a picture for anything 5 years ago. The only thing that’s in any way different is that now you know you can’t trust it.
minus-squarereksas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI suppose the conclusion is that we need better ways to verify things
minus-squareconciselyverboselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThe conclusion is to learn to be comfortable with uncertainty. The world is inherently uncertain, all the way down to the possibility of measuring subatomic particles.
It’s the exact same thing. You’re drawing a distinction between two identical things.
Pictures have not been credible for a long time. You shouldn’t have “trusted” a picture for anything 5 years ago.
The only thing that’s in any way different is that now you know you can’t trust it.
I suppose the conclusion is that we need better ways to verify things
The conclusion is to learn to be comfortable with uncertainty.
The world is inherently uncertain, all the way down to the possibility of measuring subatomic particles.