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CJ Chilvers
Personal blog · cjchilvers.com/blogwritingaicareer
CJ Chilvers's personal blog at cjchilvers.com covers writing, ai and career. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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You're getting downvoted here, but what you seem to be trying to refer to here is more commonly known as the Gell-Man Amnesia Effect. [1] It states that whenever the press writes about something we know well, we scoff at how wrong they get it. Then we turn the page to a new story about something in which we lack expertise and believe every word of it. [1] https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect
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