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Following a rabbit hole is now a prompt away; build the agents and tools that find where things come from
Never take something at face value: provenance (where it came from) and explainability (why it is the way it is) are now a prompt away, and visualising the rabbit holes is a skill to build your own agents and tools for. The article's own example: the David Rice keynote found by an agent following a link.
Decided by. Dinis, in Follow the rabbit holes ('one of the areas I believe in most'); the editor records it in the vault
Note. The identity of the David Rice talk was confirmed in site v0.2.11 by Dinis's 2016 post The Pollution Analogy, which links the full recording: the rabbit hole closed by following one more link.
Where it comes from
- Follow the rabbit holes Provenance, explainability and the rabbit holes (article)
- Where the thinking came from the David Rice recording that could not be placed (article)
- Generative AI, not AI the section of corrections (article)
What it answers in the 2018 book
- Facts answered outline, Concepts
Where it goes
Chapter Facts, evidence and the record, part Direction and judgement (drafting); topic Facts, evidence and the record.
Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Make fact-based decisions: think out loud and let the record check you, Ask to be corrected, and print the corrections with their sources, Question everything: a claim earns its status by being refutable, Questioning, and asking for the evidence, is one of the most important skills now, They care about privacy; Snapchat's best feature was that images disappear, Provenance and explainability are how you disagree rationally, Managing information so that decisions can be made is what work is, What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds is now a brief and a feedback loop, Be the best-prepared person in the room: briefings, pre-briefings, follow-ups, Provenance is a graph: where a claim came from is a chain of edges back to its source, A graph is trustworthy not because it is right but because it is where users, experts and tests can correct it, Stale pages become false memories, so a memory must say where each thing came from and name its own errors.
Node idea:a-rabbit-hole-is-a-prompt-away in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.