Defender on Defender’s Corner

I really appreciate your thoughtful comment!!! > Just remember that information can have bias and deception yes! I keep thinking about how, I almost want a mental map where every piece of information is tagged with metadata (my % confidence in it, and the source from which it came). I think that matters for when I'm using it as a building block for other beliefs. And also, if one day I discover that that source was not as reliable as I thought, I can go back and inspect what all was built on top of that (I think the minds of people like Geoffrey Hinton describes do this to some extent, maybe) > And there are lots of things in medicine and physics that previous work has already disproven that is still widely believed based on being plausible this is interesting! when you say 'widely believed' do you mean, outside the field? believed by non-experts even though all the experts know it is not true? those are always interesting cases when I encounter them and I feel like they are a "low hanging fruit", to try and explain it to laypeople in ways that make sense, to give people a new mental model that is more accurate/closer to the consensus within the field (I'm curious if you have any examples! I can't think of any at the top of my head)