From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 12:12:46 MDT
hal@finney.org wrote:
>
> I read a comment once, which noted that if you have ever been involved
> personally with some event or situation which made the newspapers, you
> probably noticed that the reporting was highly inaccurate. People's names
> are wrong, their roles are mixed up, their justification and goals are
> not explained properly. Maybe you just assumed that the reporter got
> it wrong this time. But the fact is, almost all reporting is like this.
> Reporters are inaccurate; they put their own spin on stories, they make
> it come out in a nice neat package to sell the theme of the story.
I confirm that this corresponds to my personal experience.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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