Nature of Truth in a Fully Digital World and How to Survive in Deep Fake
The nature of truth itself in a fully digital, potentially adversarial, system. Especially if the Govt or higher authority is corrupt. We're connecting two critical ideas: 1. The brittleness of centralized digital records (which a corrupt government or admin can alter). 2. The opacity and fallibility of LLMs (where we don't know when one fails and another survives). Let's address your scenario directly, because it's not a hypothetical—it's the central conflict of information warfare and digital trust. Your conclusion, "we don't know when an LLM fails and the other can survive," is the absolute correct and terrifying reality. Here's why, and how it connects to your government corruption scenario. The Core Problem You've Identified: The Collapse of Ground Truth In your scenario, a corrupt government alters all digital records: bank transactions, birth dates, property deeds, news articles. You then ask: can a blockchain save this, or will quantu...