brigrammer on Nostr: No, I said that we can't know if the data is true. I said nothing about if the data ...

No, I said that we can't know if the data is true. I said nothing about if the data was consensus. And I just said consensus != true. It is at best a useful observation. Perhaps consensus == true is a mental shorthand you apply, but it one that would be a disaster for me to use in my line of work and thus isn't even a consideration for me.

I also go further and state we can't know anything. We can only suspect something to a high degree, and then that thing could still be a useful lie or a harmful truth or a fleeting falsehood. I am a programmer so my conceptions of things are not going to line up with a normal person, I have learned the hard way that a bit set to true may false when reexamined.