Bounded Distrust is an important addition to my personal lexicon, and this is a decent explanation of how to use it with news organizations. Zvi is perhaps a bit cynical, but the thesis is in part that this level of cynicism is warranted.
I haven’t been using Bounded Distrust as much when thinking about news organizations, but I do use it when thinking about other vectors for information. (Including people.) That’s a bit odd, since the original essays (both Scott’s and Zvi’s) are very much about news agencies. The general lesson is something like, what ways do you expect an information source to drift from ground truth or mislead?
I’d like to recommend some essay on Bounded Distrust for the Best Of LessWrong collection for adding a useful term to my vocabulary and a checklist of how to use it for the news.
Bounded Distrust is an important addition to my personal lexicon, and this is a decent explanation of how to use it with news organizations. Zvi is perhaps a bit cynical, but the thesis is in part that this level of cynicism is warranted.
I haven’t been using Bounded Distrust as much when thinking about news organizations, but I do use it when thinking about other vectors for information. (Including people.) That’s a bit odd, since the original essays (both Scott’s and Zvi’s) are very much about news agencies. The general lesson is something like, what ways do you expect an information source to drift from ground truth or mislead?
I’d like to recommend some essay on Bounded Distrust for the Best Of LessWrong collection for adding a useful term to my vocabulary and a checklist of how to use it for the news.