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Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines by Loughla on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:55PM (#43003756)
Even Wikipedia is a problem though. There are so many pages now that self-reference is almost impossible to detect. Meaning, the citation of a statement made on Wikipedia that uses an outside article for reference, which is an article that was originally written using that very Wikipedia article as its own citation.

It's all about trust. Trust the expert, or the crowd, or the machine.

They're all able to be gamed.

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Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines by bccdee on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:07PM (#43003942)
False equivalence. "Nothing is perfectly unreliable, therefore everything is (broadly) unreliable, therefore everything is equally unreliable." No, some sources are substantially more reliable than others.
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Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines by tremon on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:18PM (#43004065)
*perfectly reliable, but yes.
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