Benefit of the doubt is the reinforced concrete of post-truth reality construction
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I used to think the job of AI is to believe things for us. My updated view is that their job will be to doubt things for us, systematically appropriating the benefit of doubt for us.
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Doubt is an incredibly valuable capital asset. Every bit you ascertain creates two unknown bits you have to make assumptions about and can give yourself the benefit of doubt about. Known unknowns assumed to have favorable values until proven otherwise.
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