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What does the source actually support?
I tend to begin with a question that sounds simple: what does the source actually support? Much of my work has grown from noticing the distance between a confident claim and the evidence underneath it.
- When an authority cites an authority, where is the evidence?
- When the law permits something, does the system actually allow it?
- What does “control” mean when model behavior is learned, emergent and partly opaque?
- What should make us distrust a persuasive piece of content?