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Without any other comment or value judgement it's just worth pointing out that while the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is named for Murray Gell-Mann, it doesn't come from him. It's a coinage of the fiction writer Michael Crichton. We should probably call it the Crichton Amnesia Effect, but that doesn't sound as cool.

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From his talk:

> I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.

This might be humblebragging, since Crichton is certainly more famous than Gell-Mann.

But Circhton was an author, while Gell-Mann was a physicist. We associate scientists with a lot more rigor than authors.

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