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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 18 Nov 2014

    When the press writes about a topic you know well, you realize every news article you've read could have been equally mistaken.

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      2. Tucker Max‏Verified account @TuckerMax 18 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @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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      2. Malcolm 🌊Ocean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 18 Nov 2014
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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/ …

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      3. Jon Colverson‏ @JJC1138 18 Nov 2014
        Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

        @Malcolm_Ocean Thank you for posting that! I knew it had a name but I'd forgotten it and found it completely ungoogleable. :)

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      4. Malcolm 🌊Ocean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 18 Nov 2014
        Replying to @JJC1138

        @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!

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      5. Malcolm 🌊Ocean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 18 Nov 2014
        Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

        @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.

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      6. Jon Colverson‏ @JJC1138 18 Nov 2014
        Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

        @Malcolm_Ocean …find it next time I forget it. That flashcard-spaced-repetition technique sounds extremely interesting, though. Thanks!

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      7. Malcolm 🌊Ocean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 18 Nov 2014
        Replying to @JJC1138

        .@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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      2. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 18 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Also, when you're misquoted in news articles, you realize that everybody else is probably being misquoted too.

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      1. dragos novac‏ @drnovac 18 Nov 2014
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        RT @paulg: When the press writes about a topic you know well, you realize every news article you've read could have been equally mistaken.

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      2. Firas Durri‏ @firasd 18 Nov 2014
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        .@paulg Journalists chase the ‘Story’. Truth is the first casualty of Narrative.

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      2. Mike Zamansky‏ @zamansky 18 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Mistaken is a nice way of putting it.

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      1. David Bain‏ @pigeonflight 18 Nov 2014
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        RT @paulg @biancawelds When the press writes about a topic you know.. you realize every.. article.. could be... equally mistaken <-- +1000

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      2. The Original Myiq2xu™‏ @realmyiq2xu2 18 Nov 2014
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        @paulg @instapundit Journalism is the only occupation where you can be consistently wrong about everything and still have a job.

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      2. Marcos Abihaggle‏ @MarcosAbi 23 Nov 2014
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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.”/👍

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