I don’t think Jessica’s actually making that conflation, though:
[C]ollective superintelligences made of humans have another difficulty: they must prevent and detect disinformation. People on the internet sometimes lie, as do people off the internet. Self-deception is effectively another form of deception, and is extremely common [...]
In the past, I have found modest epistemology aesthetically appealing on the basis that sufficient coordination would lead to a single canonical perspective that you can increase your average accuracy by deferring to [...]. Since then, aesthetic intuitions have led me to instead think of the problem of collective epistemology as one of decentralized coordination: how can good-faith actors reason and act well as a collective superintelligence in conditions of fog of war, where deception is prevalent and creation of common knowledge is difficult? I find this framing of collective epistemology more beautiful than the idea of a immediately deferring to a canonical perspective, and it is a better fit for the real world.
The piece explicitly distinguishes between canonical perspective and truth, and explicitly argues that a strong reason to avoid deferring to the canonical perspective is that it is frequently made of lies.
I don’t think Jessica’s actually making that conflation, though:
The piece explicitly distinguishes between canonical perspective and truth, and explicitly argues that a strong reason to avoid deferring to the canonical perspective is that it is frequently made of lies.