AI and the Risk of Synchronized Blindness

Here's the key question. What happens when millions of individuals make the same "cognitive trade" simultaneously? It's not a failure of any single mind, but one that manifests in the aggregate.

Disinformation and misinformation aren't just a product of incorrect conclusions drawn from reality, they are also a product inherently of a lack of diversity in thinking.

One only needs to ponder Godell's Incompleteness Theorem for awhile to acquire the instinct that just as monoculture is a poor substitute for ecosystems a singular perspective no matter how genius is a poor substitute for a diversity of imperfect voices that nonetheless genuinely think for themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-godels-incompleteness-theorems-truly-mean-20260518/

In a way, I think this is what people mean most of the time when they say they like capitalism, they recognize we must try many different strategies based on many different perspectives and see what happens, we can't expect out intellectual vision to grasp all the essential details of reality beforehand with a perfect plan that accounts for all variables. Not only is that unrealistic, it is in some weird mysterious way impossible.

Another way to look at this is that misinformation and disinformation are phenomena that occur both on an individual level with individuals believing incorrect things and on a larger cultural level with blindspots that occur from too many people thinking along too restrictive of a narrow thought process regardless of whether that thought process is correct or not.