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 the thing is that fakes can't get deep into the social graph without being like the people in it

ultimately if you are a fake you gonna get tricked

there's many helpful things we can build into the systems to add friction for malicious actors but ultimately social manipulation in general is something that requires *requires* personal responsibility, skepticism, alertness, and emotional maturity to defeat 
 100%, but partial successes still annoy nostriches and waste their time.

We need to do all the above. 
 Winners study the British SDS undercover training manuals.

Losers study "ChatGPT For Dummies".