#democracy #information [[Nexus -- A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI]] 1. assuming every one to be fallible 2. possessing strong self-correcting mechanisms [[Elections are more about order than truth]] how to discover truth then? 1. academic institutions, the media, and the judiciary have their own internal self-correcting mechanisms for fighting corruption, correcting bias, and exposing error. 2. the existence of several independent institutions that seek the truth in different ways allows these institutions to check and correct one another.