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bell-cottoday at 12:26 PM1 replyview on HN

I coulda added another "That I've seen" disclaimer to my second para. My dataset is just friends & family who I've seen "based on a true story" movies with, where I happened to know the history.

The term to describe my "99%" isn't "dumb". It's "don't care".


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bombcartoday at 3:04 PM

It's all variations of Gell-Mann Amnesia. Any portrayal is a betrayal.

Of course, if I'm going to talk about something I know deeply, I'm almost certainly going to begin with "this is all incorrect in the details, but correct in general" or similar.