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These are hard to read, and I'm assuming people often "give up" and assume they're missing something and defer to apparent authority. That said, I could imagin
by verytrivial 10y ago
These are hard to read, and I'm assuming people often "give up" and assume they're missing something and defer to apparent authority. That said, I could imagine an insufferable bit of waffle preceding some of these sentences that might make them at least coherent in that context, and it perhaps this feeling of reserving judgement that lets these examples slip through people's radar.
It is also worth noting that just because these were generated randomly does not necessarily mean they are nonsense! (Unsound arguments can lead to true conclusions and all that).
- xg15 10y agoThese are hard to read, and I'm assuming people often "give up" and assume they're missing something and defer to apparent authority But that could be a point: Whether you, faced with such a sentence, conclude "I'm too stupid to understand this but it sounds like it probably means something important" or ask yourself "what is this even supposed to mean" does show something about your attitude.
- corecoder 10y agoMaybe, but it is highly influenced by your self confidence in understanding complicated discourse, which is in turn often tied to your cultural and educational level. It would take little changes to those sentences to totally fool me while still being bs. A biologist, a theoretical physicist and such could easily bs the crap out of me, unless I had reasons not to trust them in the first place.
- elcapitan 10y agoThat is true, but then they should have made a control test where they give complicated but true sentences to the same people, checking if they obey to the authority of the language as well. In that case they are not susceptible to bullshit, but merely have given up on 'elite' discussions. Which might both explain voting for Trump and working in Mechanical Turk.
- xg15 10y agoThese are hard to read, and I'm assuming people often "give up" and assume they're missing something and defer to apparent authority But that could be a point: Whether you, faced with such a sentence, conclude "I'm too stupid to understand this but it sounds like it probably means something important" or ask yourself "what is this even supposed to mean" does show something about your attitude.