claim candidate goes to: this-edition V villager
Stale pages become false memories, so a memory must say where each thing came from and name its own errors
A shared memory made by agents and people becomes a rumour mill unless every item carries its source; and it goes stale: the session that wrote the article found four stale claims about its own estate and fixed two, measuring the rest at build time rather than remembering them. A memory that hides its errors is the thing to argue against. 'If the reality document doesn't list it, it does not exist.'
Decided by. Nobody yet: a candidate for Dinis to read, comment on and decide (keep, rewrite, merge, cut, article first, later, not doing it).
Where it comes from
- Memory is not a spectator sport Provenance built in; Where it falls short (newsroom)
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, Following a rabbit hole is now a prompt away; build the agents and tools that find where things come from, 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.
Node idea:stale-pages-become-false-memories in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.