Stop Spreading The News
Artificial-intelligence researcher Robert Wilensky (1951-2013), in a 1996 speech, said: “We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.” Both ideas, as presented, are false. First, it was an infinite number of monkeys, and the idea was a nutshell-notion about statistical probability. Second, the Internet has more than a million monkeys on it (and a good number of other species as well). Trust me — I’ve been suckered by more than a few bits of fake news over the years. Check your sources along with your gut. And beware of Santa Claus — he’s obviously a home invader!
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There is worse than fake news : there is extrapolation (generalizing something from minor or fragmentary facts).
In my country, some hate-mongers use extrapolation in order to make people hate minorities. They talk about about minor of fake threats and make people believe that they are far more dangerous than in reality. And the worse is that it can work… So, it’s a sort of fake news but as dangerous.
Caedmon, in grad school you never saw the “BEWARE the new food additive ‘Dihydrogen Oxide”, it is killing over 1000 per year!” petition posted in the dining hall?