Deepfakes & The Archaic Revival: A The Long Now Foundation Ignite Talk

It might be time to ease off on that flux capacitor…

Abstract: Modernity was largely built upon the “epistemic backstop” of recordings we can trust. What happens when we lose this privilege? As of 02020, most widely-subscribed visions of the future seem like presentist projections of a brief moment in which the West was capable of large-scale consensus on reality. Between the challenges brought to the scientific method by…