YazIAm

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by YazIAm 4y ago
Funny quote and all (no sarcasm intended) but I don't think it's fair to imply that, if future wars are bloodier than the past, it would be because we lowered barriers to communication.
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by YazIAm 4y ago
I think when we consider what Facebook has taught us about anonymity vs real name policies we have to also remember that Facebook's feed disproportionately rewards sensationalist content.
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by YazIAm 4y ago
"You thought that an information transfer protocol would solve social problems?" I recognize that this is just a comic strip, but this is a pretty reductionist point. The idea that giving people access to more knowledge about the
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by YazIAm 5y ago
> Nor is the “team of rivals” concept an innovation of the early 1860s, though Goodwin assures us it is. What an odd critique: Lincoln did this great thing, but he didn't invent it, so who cares? Beyond that being an odd critique, I
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by YazIAm 6y ago
The idea of raising money to speed up high quality execution instead of raising money to add “months of runway" is a powerful re-framing IMO. One of those reframes that sounds so simple one may overlook how different these two mindsets
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Tech to Detect Misinformation Will Be More Expensive Than Tech Which Produces It(sourcedfact.com)
8 points by YazIAm 7y ago|1 comments
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Tech to Detect Misinformation Will Be More Expensive Than Tech Which Produces It(sourcedfact.com)
10 points by YazIAm 7y ago|2 comments
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by YazIAm 7y ago
A few tips from my RSI journey. I had developed a severe case ~8ish years ago. It took 1.5 years before I could code full-time again. Was a very painful period. It's still difficult for me to code beyond 40 hours a week, which makes si
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by YazIAm 7y ago
I intend to move user contributed fact verifications to some sort of distributed ledger model to ensure transparency. Still in alpha though, so lots of work ahead.
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by YazIAm 7y ago
The assumption behind this idea isn't that there are no accurate journalism outlets out there, it's that by "open sourcing" their fact checking, these outlets will better stand out, adopting a standard that inaccurate ou
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by YazIAm 7y ago
You'll notice that on this platform every proven fact is annotated. As a result, proven statements stand out from unproven statements. This forces the writer to be upfront about which assertions are proven, and which are speculation&#x
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by YazIAm 7y ago
I maybe misunderstanding your question, but this platform only accepts public primary sources as valid evidence. A media news story is never a primary source for proving the assertions within it, it's a secondary source. Edit: I had or
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback, the second (accessibility) should be a quick fix. I definitely also want to address the first issue, the tricky part is coming up with a solution that also works when there are multiple assertions on one line, but I
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Just read through some of your repo, ravenstine. Very cool! I'll be sending you an email :)
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Indeed, manual vetting is only for alpha. I should reiterate - the point of this type of open fact checking is you can always verify everything for yourself, so you don't need to trust my credentials. Long term every review, even those
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by YazIAm 7y ago
I truly believe that post-publication fact checking is a losing battle. If you take a sampling of redaction tweets by media outlets and compare their retweet counts to the retweet counts of the original posting you'll see that that is
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by YazIAm 7y ago
This is more a communication standard than a complicated tech solution. A communication standard for fact checks from public primary sources. Coding this wasn't actually that complicated, figuring out a design that enables readers to r
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by YazIAm 7y ago
I actually got a friend who works at Tesla to email Musk about SourcedFact when he was tweeting about that haha, busy guy though ;)
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Thanks :) Indeed they have unique urls, I'll see if I can make that clearer on the landing page: Net Neutrality - https://sourcedfact.com/a/net-neutrality-how-we-got-here Cell Phone Privacy - https://so
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by YazIAm 7y ago
You're 100% correct in that one can cite completely valid facts and still push an agenda by omitting other facts. I'm actually working on a "fact comment section" feature where any reader can pin facts to an article (fac
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Indeed, currently all "verified" reviewers are manually vetted. Long term the goal is to have an open reputation score for every fact checker. I'm currently experimenting with different implementations of this, and seeing goo
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by YazIAm 7y ago
The goal is to capture the fact checking process and enable any reader to review it for themselves. Certainly some publications currently have an excellent fact checking process, but very few make their fact checking open and transparent. A
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by YazIAm 7y ago
I'm the exact same way, that's why I built this :)
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Will investigate, thanks for letting me know!
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by YazIAm 7y ago
That's the long term goal!
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Haha indeed, but you can't just submit any document and have it considered a primary source on the site. For example, if you're making an assertion about a piece of legislation, the primary source is that legislation hosted on th
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by YazIAm 7y ago
I 100% agree that the reputation system will be they key to scaling this. I'm currently seeing promise with my experiments with reputation scoring. As for "How do you create a platform that allows correct ideas to flourish even wh
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Well first, the point of this type of open fact checking is you can always verify everything for yourself, so you don't need to trust my credentials. Working on this over the last few years though, I've personally fact checked ove
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Every source document submitted to the platform is automatically saved to the webarchive, and the webarchive snapshot is used :)
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by YazIAm 7y ago
Only public primary sources are allowed as evidence on SourcedFact. Anonymous sources certainly have value within journalism, but the goal of SourcedFact is to make facts that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt with public primary sour

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