RichardKennaway comments on ClearerThinking's Fact-Checking 2.0 - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 22 October 2015 09:16PM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 October 2015 08:04:35PM 2 points [-]

We think that reading that a candidate's statement is false just as it is made could have quite a striking effect. It could trigger more visceral feelings among the viewers than standard fact-checking, which is published in separate articles. To over and over again read in the subtitles that what you're being told simply isn't true should outrage anyone who finds truth-telling an important quality.

Will the outrage be directed against the politician, or against the person who claims they're wrong?

I expect that any politician could take any speech made by a politician on the other side and "fact-check" it to produce a subtitled video "correcting" their "lies". How do you propose to establish a reputation for probity of the proposed system?

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 October 2015 10:02:57PM 2 points [-]

There no problem with outrage being directed against people who claim that a politician is wrong. That outrage can lead to productive discussion.

I don't think a strong reputation is necessary for people prefering to watch the debates with those subtitles instead of watching the debates without the subtitles. At the same time I think that the way Stefan Schubert annotates the videos is likely to be appreciated by many people. I think this is hard to judge in the abstract without viewing those videos.