> What's missing from this article is how to protect yourself from bad faith actors.
I think that's because, at the level of society at large, nobody knows how to do that. That's the unsolved problem the article is describing.
At an individual level, you protect yourself from bad faith actors by refusing to interact with them once you become convinced that they're bad faith actors. But at the level of society, many of the bad faith actors are in positions where their actions have large scale consequences that will affect you whether you like it or not. So the individual solution doesn't work for that case.
I think that's because, at the level of society at large, nobody knows how to do that. That's the unsolved problem the article is describing.
At an individual level, you protect yourself from bad faith actors by refusing to interact with them once you become convinced that they're bad faith actors. But at the level of society, many of the bad faith actors are in positions where their actions have large scale consequences that will affect you whether you like it or not. So the individual solution doesn't work for that case.