method candidate goes to: this-edition V villager
Make fact-based decisions: think out loud and let the record check you
Count rather than remember; publish only what the record supports (5 claims confirmed, 5 corrected, 2 not found); review as a record with every finding answered; distrust self-reports.
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
- My memory, checked the experiment (newsroom)
- Reviews on the record review as a record (newsroom)
- Your agent's logs are a self-report under 2% admitted (newsroom)
- Facts the 2018 outline (book-2018)
What it answers in the 2018 book
- Facts answered outline, Concepts
- Feedback loops answered outline, Concepts
- Being criticized is an privilege answered written, Life Patterns
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: 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, Stale pages become false memories, so a memory must say where each thing came from and name its own errors.
Node idea:the-record-checks-you in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.