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I was interested when Feynman pushed back on the laziness of the opening question - seems like a very Feynman thing to do - so I was interested. The follow up
by xsmasher 4y ago
I was interested when Feynman pushed back on the laziness of the opening question - seems like a very Feynman thing to do - so I was interested.
The follow up question, though, snuck in a lie - "you went to UC Berkeley for two years." That property of these interviews seems dangerous, and likely to implant false factoids in people's heads.
- rngname22 4y agoYeah I commented on this on the last thread by this company on here, but it's like literally a demo of a fake news / misinformation machine. Content that sounds stylistically like the parroted speakers but is just factually incorrect or misrepresentative of what the speakers would likely say. I guess if the point is to demo the pure technical achievement it's maybe cool but there needs to be a huge 'misinfo' disclaimer plastered literally everywhere that it's for entertainment, although even then people could just rip the audio and repost it and pretend it was real.
- jahewson 4y agoFun fact, factoids are always false.
- ravenstine 4y agoNecessarily? I'd assume a factoid has the potential to be either true or false.
- hhmc 4y agoBy some original definition of the word they are necessarily false. Usage seems to have shifted to ‘small fact’ though
- KennyFromIT 4y agoThe common misunderstanding of the word `factoid` to mean "a small fact" is itself a factoid.
- kjeetgill 4y agoOxford English Dictionary (via Google) gives: Factoid - a brief or trivial item of news or information - an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact So both uses are reasonable?