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I'm 99% certain it happened.
by pizza 10y ago
I'm 99% certain it happened.
- grzm 10y agoOther than the tweets, is there other information out there? What do you base your certainty on? I'm curious partly because I'm trying to learn how people gauge veracity in this seemly new era of news.
- pizza 10y agobecause then it would make the surprisal of hearing any more information about this story incredibly high, so I would be more entertained by it
- grzm 10y agoSo, am I understanding you correctly that this is mostly entertainment for you (at least the certainty statement)? How important is the truth of the incident to you? Little to none is an acceptable answer.
- pizza 10y agoIt's more like an incentive I offer the person who doubts the story ever happened to prove me wrong. Thereby the truth is learned, regardless of whatever a priori probability I actually have. I'm just playing the player-2 role in the game "who wants to make a bet?"
- ma-nu 10y agoI don't know if this is fake news, but Australian media is reporting this on an Australian too... http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stories/aussies-weird-immigration-interview-in-the-us/news-story/8222c65d2f12e6691ef27c9b1753e821 http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stori...