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From the Ted Talk by Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth

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So, imagine that you had your shorpnatme miniaturized and hooked up directly to your barin. If you had this sort of brain chip, you'd be able to upload and download to the internet at the speed of thought. Accessing social media or Wikipedia would be a lot like — well, from the inside at least — like consulting your own memory. It would be as easy and as inittame as tiihknng. But would it make it easier for you to know what's true? Just because a way of accessing information is faster it doesn't mean it's more rlailebe, of course, and it doesn't mean that we would all interpret it the same way. And it doesn't mean that you would be any better at evaluating it. In fact, you might even be worse, because, you know, more data, less time for evaluation.

Open Cloze


So, imagine that you had your __________ miniaturized and hooked up directly to your _____. If you had this sort of brain chip, you'd be able to upload and download to the internet at the speed of thought. Accessing social media or Wikipedia would be a lot like — well, from the inside at least — like consulting your own memory. It would be as easy and as ________ as ________. But would it make it easier for you to know what's true? Just because a way of accessing information is faster it doesn't mean it's more ________, of course, and it doesn't mean that we would all interpret it the same way. And it doesn't mean that you would be any better at evaluating it. In fact, you might even be worse, because, you know, more data, less time for evaluation.

Solution


  1. reliable
  2. smartphone
  3. intimate
  4. brain
  5. thinking

Original Text


So, imagine that you had your smartphone miniaturized and hooked up directly to your brain. If you had this sort of brain chip, you'd be able to upload and download to the internet at the speed of thought. Accessing social media or Wikipedia would be a lot like — well, from the inside at least — like consulting your own memory. It would be as easy and as intimate as thinking. But would it make it easier for you to know what's true? Just because a way of accessing information is faster it doesn't mean it's more reliable, of course, and it doesn't mean that we would all interpret it the same way. And it doesn't mean that you would be any better at evaluating it. In fact, you might even be worse, because, you know, more data, less time for evaluation.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
common reality 4
bad faith 3
social media 2
objective truth 2
feels good 2
fake news 2
means risking 2


Important Words


  1. accessing
  2. brain
  3. chip
  4. consulting
  5. data
  6. download
  7. easier
  8. easy
  9. evaluating
  10. evaluation
  11. fact
  12. faster
  13. hooked
  14. imagine
  15. information
  16. internet
  17. interpret
  18. intimate
  19. lot
  20. media
  21. memory
  22. miniaturized
  23. reliable
  24. smartphone
  25. social
  26. sort
  27. speed
  28. thinking
  29. thought
  30. time
  31. true
  32. upload
  33. wikipedia
  34. worse