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Gell-Mann Amnesia
Michael Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann Amnesia effect to describe forgetting how unreliable a source is in one area when you trust it in another area.
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Linked from 11 Hacker News comments by 11 different people, from Oct 2021 to Feb 2026.
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- raw_anon_1111 · Feb 25, 2026
- latexr · May 20, 2023
- LordAtlas · Mar 10, 2023
- munificent · Dec 28, 2022
- rayiner · Dec 23, 2022
- notlukesky · Dec 5, 2022
