jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoNo one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1416arrow-down140cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1376arrow-down1external-linkNo one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.www.theverge.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square150fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.org
minus-squarerandy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down3·3 months agoRelevant XKCD. Humans have always been able to lie. Having a single form of irrefutable proof is the historical exception, not the rule.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoRegarding that last panel, why would multiple people go through the trouble of carving lies about Ea-Nasir’s shitty copper? And even if they did, why would he keep them? No, his copper definitely sucked.
minus-squareOmniraptor@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoThe obvious conjecture is that they were trying to commit fraud and get free copper
Relevant XKCD. Humans have always been able to lie. Having a single form of irrefutable proof is the historical exception, not the rule.
Regarding that last panel, why would multiple people go through the trouble of carving lies about Ea-Nasir’s shitty copper? And even if they did, why would he keep them? No, his copper definitely sucked.
The obvious conjecture is that they were trying to commit fraud and get free copper