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This simply doesn’t work because “information”, in the form of news articles and blog posts, consists of 10% actual facts and 90% narrative framing. As such, an

by knzhou 7y ago

This simply doesn’t work because “information”, in the form of news articles and blog posts, consists of 10% actual facts and 90% narrative framing. As such, any distributed rating of factuality will instantly devolve into a rating of popularity, because modern information is simply not made of facts. And we already have popularity ratings and they don’t work for truth.

Jeff_Brown 7y ago
> news articles and blog posts, consists of 10% actual facts and 90% narrative framing Agreed! That's part of my motivation. A federated knowledge graph would allow people to distill the kernels of insight from the fluff and share the good stuff. > we already have popularity ratings and they don’t work for truth. I envision no algorithm to rate truth. I'm skeptical it's possible (but interested in suggestions). I just want people to be operationalize their definition of truth. I'd like you to be able to search for economic forecasts by people with PhDs from Harvard made prior to the last interest rate hike. Or statements regarding the West Bank agreed upon by a majority of Israelis and a majority of Palestinians. Or incoherent rates by an orange man-child with his head up his ass. I can't guarantee a good index and search engine would be used the right way. I just think it would be better if we could get our hands dirty, rather than hoping Google does the right thing.
- Jeff_Brown 7y ago
  Part of my aim is that the data behind counterarguments be as easy to reach as the opinion they led to. It's one thing for me to see that 30% of users think vaccines cause hemmorhoid-face. It's another if I can see that their beliefs can all be traced (after factoring out cycles within that community) to a single no-longer-licensed proctologist.
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This simply doesn’t work because “information”, in the form of news articles and blog posts, consists of 10% actual facts and 90% narrative framing. As such, an

by knzhou 7y ago

Jeff_Brown 7y ago
> news articles and blog posts, consists of 10% actual facts and 90% narrative framing Agreed! That's part of my motivation. A federated knowledge graph would allow people to distill the kernels of insight from the fluff and share the good stuff. > we already have popularity ratings and they don’t work for truth. I envision no algorithm to rate truth. I'm skeptical it's possible (but interested in suggestions). I just want people to be operationalize their definition of truth. I'd like you to be able to search for economic forecasts by people with PhDs from Harvard made prior to the last interest rate hike. Or statements regarding the West Bank agreed upon by a majority of Israelis and a majority of Palestinians. Or incoherent rates by an orange man-child with his head up his ass. I can't guarantee a good index and search engine would be used the right way. I just think it would be better if we could get our hands dirty, rather than hoping Google does the right thing.
- Jeff_Brown 7y ago
  Part of my aim is that the data behind counterarguments be as easy to reach as the opinion they led to. It's one thing for me to see that 30% of users think vaccines cause hemmorhoid-face. It's another if I can see that their beliefs can all be traced (after factoring out cycles within that community) to a single no-longer-licensed proctologist.
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