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		htk on Oct 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NY Times gets 230 wrong again Related to that, there's the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect[1], where an expert can see numerous mistakes on his area of expertise being reported on the news, but somehow takes the rest as being accurate. [1]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

shadowmanifold on Oct 29, 2024 [–]

Murray Gell-Mann - "The quality of information" lecture on youtube from 1997 is also worth a listen.

Murray basically points out how much communication in general is really just exchanging errors for no reason.

I suspect this is where the idea of "Gell-Mann Amnesia" came from.

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