2020-03-29 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I am not very literate in game theory, but I have sort of skimmed the idea of it. Just writing this down while I remember it: If one was interested in "proving" why some sort of intellectual anarchy is necessary, look for a game theoretical model that puts a public persona against a random individual in sphere of information. What you will find is that the public persona will almost never be incentiviced to be honest while the random individual is benefited most by honesty. Case: Covid and honest medical facts as far as facts were available. When putting forward information, the public persona will have an extra factor to count in compared to a random individual: The public persona will select the information imparted down so as to not cause panic. For a random individual the honest information would have been more useful than the watered down information, but the panic avoidant talk is more beneficial to the public persona. ------------------------------------------------------------------