[2/*] The reason I thought they were silly is because they seemed so much easier than the other things that we were asked to do at a similar time. For example, solving a quadratic equation seems dramatically more difficult than understanding a simple paragraph.
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[3/*] But lately it seems like people cannot read even one or two sentences and correctly build a model in their head of what is being said, never mind able to read, say, an article or a source document.
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[4/*] Note that this is separate from things like emotional content, or intent. I'm talking about just basic facts, like what is the subject of a sentence, or whether there was one thing being talked about or two things.
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[5/*] The most recent example that really drove this home for me is that there were recent disclosures regarding grant proposals and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There were _two separate proposals_, one of which was funded, and the other which was not.
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[6/*] It turns out gain of function research was _in_ the first proposal (DARPA. unfunded), not in the second proposal (NIH, funded), but then the second proposal ended up in the lab "accidentally" producing gain of function. Those are the actual facts that were disclosed.
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[7/*] From a reading comprehension standpoint, this is very straightforward (to me). But Twitter is now _littered_ with threads of people who are all over the map on what they are asserting. It's insane. I guess Twitter is where people who failed reading comprehension end up?
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[8/*] It is so frustrating that it makes me want to make a weekly show where all I do is recap what the subjects, verbs, and objects of the week's news sentences were, because apparently nobody can handle that if it gets even slightly complicated.
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[9/*] Like it seems that people on Twitter can only handle one subject. Like there was a grant proposal. They could handle that. But once there were two grant proposals, that's the end of it. Their brain can't track two similar things at the same time, so it's over?
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Honestly, crafting an accurate clear message, even when you're a good actor trying to stay truthful. It's really easy to misread through how much noise is out there. Once one person makes a mistake, it compounds with every reshare. Both reading and writing are hard
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Not to mention that everyone is working with less than 2% of the available information. And people want to believe certain things.
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