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John Carter's avatar

There are essentially no consequences for them if they get things wrong. Sure, in theory, their reputation can suffer, but people's memories are short, and in all probability the same is true of the experts themselves, who conveniently forget all the times their "feels over reals" epistemological yardstick led them astray. Easy to forget when it keeps getting you engagement.

If Musk wanted to really improve his platform, he should expand the community notes feature to include some kind of prediction tracking. "While it is too early to tell if this prediction is accurate, this account has a 5.3% accuracy rating based on previous tweets."

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But what would the numbers be if we controlled for the Eric Feigl-Ding factor?!?

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