Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "The NYT Says its Crucial to Stay Informed: Thanks For the Endorsement!" video.

  1. "Informed"? In my conception, "information" is simply "data". So everything informs, according to your perceptual abilities. Data quality is always an issue, though. Hmm...at what age is a person perceptually able to "smell a rat", as it were, detect inconsistency in data? Or is this ability the culmination of an inherent skill, practiced to sufficient perfection? The unacknowledged reality is that knowledge cannot be transferred; it has to be inculcated. If you haven't done the work of collecting information, analyzing it, and then realizing the extent of its validity and applicability, you can't "know"--you can only remember...voices of authority...making pronouncements of "fact"...Believe It, Or Not...is your only choice.
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