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Comment by wolfgke

6 years ago

> Similar effect when reading the news on a topic that one is an expert in - they usually get it incredibly wrong.

This is the argument behind the Gell-Mann amnesia effect:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

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hombre_fatal  6 years ago

We really need to retire "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" and relegate it to a /glossary on HN along with the various philosophical razors, "Dunning-Kruger effect", "X fallacy", "gaslighting", and other intellectual placeholders like that.

As soon as I read the grandparent comment, I knew there was going to be a flood of people arriving to supply us with some wiki link.

This way we can just cut to the chase with "Ah, I smell a case of /glossary#4 going on!".

  • A4ET8a8uTh0  6 years ago

    Why should it be retired? Is it untrue? Is there a valid reason to doubt it? It is hard to accept a removal of useful mental shortcut for no reason.