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A proposal of Balaji Srinivasan: able to interrogate the information supply chain . . . . You see it in the media and that comes from, a government study, that

by adolph 3y ago

A proposal of Balaji Srinivasan: able to interrogate the information supply chain . . . . You see it in the media and that comes from, a government study, that's based on academic study, that's based on a data set. . . . have a actual academic supply chain where you can trace the etiology, the origin of a fact or an assertion all the way through the literature. And there's a famous paper that actually did track something like this all the way through the literature and found, it was just something that just got repeated with some like medical nostrum that actually didn't really have that base of evidentiary support where when you track all the back, you couldn't find the brought table. https://podclips.com/ct/zgkzdp https://podclips.com/ct/zgkzdp

rcxdude 3y ago
You can just do this now, usually. It does just take some effort, but that's gonna be true whether or not people actually cite their sources properly or not: most of the effort is in actually reading and understanding the material, not finding it, even when it's not super straightforward to find. (for example, when a piece of legislation is widely reported on, I usually can manage to find and actually read said legislation, which can be quite informative as to whether said reporting is accurate)
- RockyMcNuts 3y ago
  it would be interesting if an AI with semantic understanding could read and understand all the material and you could interrogate it about the backup behind a claim. it would be interesting if the entire lab notebook record was available to such an AI and cryptographically signed and dated. that would potentially prevent people from doctoring images and data, as has been recently alleged on multiple occasions. it would be interesting if that AI was trained to do causal inference and do-calculus, and every paper published generated an incremental update to an automatically constructed meta-analysis and systematic research review. keep going and make a large body of real-world e.g. medical data available to the AI, and every interaction could be an addition to the clinical trial data. and then make the AI able to generate new hypotheses and directions for experimentation to test those hypotheses.

by adolph 3y ago

rcxdude 3y ago

You can just do this now, usually. It does just take some effort, but that's gonna be true whether or not people actually cite their sources properly or not: most of the effort is in actually reading and understanding the material, not finding it, even when it's not super straightforward to find. (for example, when a piece of legislation is widely reported on, I usually can manage to find and actually read said legislation, which can be quite informative as to whether said reporting is accurate)

RockyMcNuts 3y ago
it would be interesting if an AI with semantic understanding could read and understand all the material and you could interrogate it about the backup behind a claim. it would be interesting if the entire lab notebook record was available to such an AI and cryptographically signed and dated. that would potentially prevent people from doctoring images and data, as has been recently alleged on multiple occasions. it would be interesting if that AI was trained to do causal inference and do-calculus, and every paper published generated an incremental update to an automatically constructed meta-analysis and systematic research review. keep going and make a large body of real-world e.g. medical data available to the AI, and every interaction could be an addition to the clinical trial data. and then make the AI able to generate new hypotheses and directions for experimentation to test those hypotheses.