Re:Ask HN: Is there something like a "FactChain"?
by Fr3dd1 on Monday March 24, 2025 @03:02PM
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I like that comment, gave me a smile :D You are truly correct, thats why I asked if something like that already exists.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there something like a "FactChain"?
by Terr_ on Monday March 24, 2025 @04:01PM
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You might be interested in something like Coq [0], but even with literal software it's very very hard to prove logical correctness, let alone wishy-washy real-world things like "when I mixed these two chemicals they turned greenish which probably suggests X."
Best I can see happening is a way to visualize relationships between research papers so that humans can argue over what it really means. Like a graph of edges where "this paper cites that one and one strongly depends on it being true for its own conclusions", or "this one claims it did/didn't disprove that other one", and retroactive additions like "an outside observer noticed that X and Y are probably either both correct or both incorrect."