
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Alex Turner introduced an exercise to test subjects’ ability to notice falsehoods: change factual statements in Wikipedia articles, hand the edited articles to subjects and see whether they notice the modifications.
I’ve spent a few hours making such modifications and testing the articles on my friend group. You can find the articles here. I describe my observations and thoughts below. The bottom line: it is hard to come up with good modifications / articles to modify, and this is the biggest crux for me.
The concept
Alex Turner explains the idea well here. The post is short, so I'm just copying it here:
Rationality exercise: Take a set of Wikipedia articles on topics which trainees are somewhat familiar with, and then randomly select a small number of claims to negate (negating the immediate context as well, so that you can't just syntactically discover which claims were negated).
For [...]
---
Outline:
(00:38) The concept
(02:14) Features of good modifications
(04:44) Examples
(05:40) Takeaways and thoughts
The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.
---
First published:
Source:
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
Alex Turner introduced an exercise to test subjects’ ability to notice falsehoods: change factual statements in Wikipedia articles, hand the edited articles to subjects and see whether they notice the modifications.
I’ve spent a few hours making such modifications and testing the articles on my friend group. You can find the articles here. I describe my observations and thoughts below. The bottom line: it is hard to come up with good modifications / articles to modify, and this is the biggest crux for me.
The concept
Alex Turner explains the idea well here. The post is short, so I'm just copying it here:
Rationality exercise: Take a set of Wikipedia articles on topics which trainees are somewhat familiar with, and then randomly select a small number of claims to negate (negating the immediate context as well, so that you can't just syntactically discover which claims were negated).
For [...]
---
Outline:
(00:38) The concept
(02:14) Features of good modifications
(04:44) Examples
(05:40) Takeaways and thoughts
The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.
---
First published:
Source:
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
26,420 Listeners
2,387 Listeners
7,893 Listeners
4,132 Listeners
87 Listeners
1,459 Listeners
9,040 Listeners
87 Listeners
390 Listeners
5,431 Listeners
15,216 Listeners
476 Listeners
121 Listeners
75 Listeners
459 Listeners