I think the Internet both acts as a distributed anomaly detection system, an organizing system for ad hoc and persistent flocks of people looking into things, and a broad secular boost on the returns of being right with regards to some classes of anomalies.
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Interestingly, fiction tends to say that anomalies are generally found by deeply disturbed people or long-time experts who are also generally some flavor of broken, which... doesn't really match who ends up doing the yeomen's work on these things?
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If there were actually a large reptile spotted off the coast of Japan there would be a subreddit within a day, and the moderators would probably have far more Wikipedia edits than most people but otherwise be pretty normal.
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This describes >80% of my lifetime value add so it strongly resonates. I would really like to figure out how to develop this skill set in others.
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I view the phenomenon more along the lines of, "as major news outlets stop fact checking, as people commit shoddy science in a rush to publish, facts become rarer and more valuable."
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Someday I'll be smart enough to tweet something like this
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This is a product of increasing complexity incentivising increased specialization to find interesting novelty. Humankind's understanding is limited by the aggregate's need to be decomposed into human understandable chunks. 1/2
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How can we leverage ai's alien understanding to faster improve the aggregate's?
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