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This was legitimately fascinating. It’s crazy that Bloomberg reported on the same issue and didn’t find anything. Their reporters are terrible at their jobs or were prevented from doing them properly. Either way Bloomberg looks inept or corrupt.
It’s not that surprising that an outlet that makes its entire living on a certain segment of the economy would do a better job in that segment than generalist journalists.
If you’ve ever seen a news article about something you have real world expertise in, you know what I mean. Every time this happens to me I’m like “but they’re giving it such a surface treatment, missing the real point, and getting lots of little things wrong.”
Then I turn to the next article and read it like it’s gospel. It’s a cognitive dissonance I don’t know how to deal with except by becoming an expert in everything, which is impossible.
I hate to bring up AI, but this is exactly what I keep trying to explain to people - when you ask any of these bots questions about things you're an expert in, you see all the flaws. The trouble is people tend not to ask questions about things they already know...
100%. I'm a microbiologist so I asked ChatGPT to teach me about CRISPR. It was not great.