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A LessWrong post argues that when multiple news outlets publish similar stories from a shared origin, readers may wrongly treat them as independent sources and over-update on the information.
Written by AI from LessWrong's published text.
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“Consider a situation where multiple news outlets publish similar stories. A reader may model these as independent, and thus strongly update on the information presented.”
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