Every possible claim on every possible issue will probably happen on the Internet. Some of those claims will be right. Some will be wrong. We have the prior expectation that journalists, government, and experts will utterly crush others as a population on their track records.
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But for the first time, we now have observable track records. And that... we are still working through the societal implications of that.
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It’s always been possible for a stopped clock the be right twice a day. And it’s always been possible for someone controlling the channel to say, in response to being outperformed on a single instant, that it was outperformed by a stopped clock. But which clock keeps winning?
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It's not quite append-only. Vox just deleted their January claim that COVID-19 wouldn't become a worldwide pandemic.
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"There's always a tweet." Much good though it did us. (And... there's always a tweet, at scale.)
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A lot of journalists and publications delete tweets or change the headlines they link to
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So their body of work is small. I'll take 85/100 over 10/10 all day.
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It *should be* append only, but bad takes get quietly memory-holed, feeds cleansed to appear prescient.
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