@paulg That's a real thing. It's called The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, so named by Michael Crichton: http://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnesia-effect/ …
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@paulg Michael Crichton called this the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect:http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-gell-mann-amnesia-effect/ … -
@Malcolm_Ocean Thank you for posting that! I knew it had a name but I'd forgotten it and found it completely ungoogleable. :) -
@JJC1138 FWIW, I remembered the exact name because I memorized it with@AnkiDroid. Didn't know when/why it'd be useful, but here we are! -
@JJC1138 It's a fascinating point in favour of memorization. What I really memorized, in many ways, was a search query: a pointer to info. -
@Malcolm_Ocean …find it next time I forget it. That flashcard-spaced-repetition technique sounds extremely interesting, though. Thanks! -
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@JJC1138 and you know, I'm so looking forward to interfaces that make searching as fast as thinking. But we're not quite there yet :- '
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@paulg Also, when you're misquoted in news articles, you realize that everybody else is probably being misquoted too. - 1 more reply
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@paulg: When the press writes about a topic you know well, you realize every news article you've read could have been equally mistaken.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Journalists chase the ‘Story’. Truth is the first casualty of Narrative. - 1 more reply
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@paulg Mistaken is a nice way of putting it. - 2 more replies
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@paulg@biancawelds When the press writes about a topic you know.. you realize every.. article.. could be... equally mistaken <-- +1000Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg@instapundit Journalism is the only occupation where you can be consistently wrong about everything and still have a job. - 1 more reply
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