Post #1802973
2026-04-09 13:05 UTC
@pbloem @ngaylinn or to put it differently “fact checking” is not an agent internal process in the first place and Tufecki’s quote seems to indicate confusion between agent internal processes for coming up with a putative answer with the raft of external tools and actions we have for checking or maintaining ‘truth’
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@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org 2026-04-09 13:23
@pbloem @ngaylinn finally, I suspect the confusion is fuelled by the fact that there is a form of inference (deduction) that is 'truth preserving' but not only does that still require that premises are true, it's also very obviously the case that the overwhelming majority of inferences we conduct as humans are not deductive