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I assumed the HN crowd was familiar with the fact that "90% of everything is crap" is someone else's idea. This was probably not a good assumption to make.
by Tomminn 8y ago
I assumed the HN crowd was familiar with the fact that "90% of everything is crap" is someone else's idea. This was probably not a good assumption to make.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoEven if they are, framing matters. Your framing sounded like "this is my (ugly) opinion" not like "Everyone knows this common saying."
- Nomentatus 8y agoSo familiar, so why state it without any special relevance, much less without attribution? Why waste our time then if everybody knows it?
- chrisallenlane 8y agoI don't know why people are giving you a hard time here. The quote is widely-known, and I appreciated your remark about the troubling lack of falsifiability criterion.
- Nomentatus 8y agoSee elsewhere here, there's no shortage of experiments to be done that could be determinative in this case. Also, Karl Popper's rule is a great rule of thumb, it really is; but there's an immense bibliography in philosophy of science about whether it's a shoe that fits all circumstances.