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When you make statements that you don't know are true, but smart enough know that you profit in some way from people believing them, and you make no effort to f
by gohrt 11y ago
When you make statements that you don't know are true, but smart enough know that you profit in some way from people believing them, and you make no effort to find out the truth, you are a bullshitter. Jobs made a career of this sort of behavior.
On the scale of respectability:
1. True statements.
2. Keeping your mouth shut.
3. Speculating.
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N-1. Making self-serving wishful statements as though they are facts.
N. Outright Lies.
- Steko 11y agoThis whole tangent is because 'comically bald faced lie' is a comically bald faced worse way of describing the situation with words than how the article itself described it -- 'entirely false' -- despite Adam comment's description of the 'bald faced lie' as being somehow 'hidden' instead of being called out explicitly and discussed in detail.